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Date Posted: 18:09:42 02/17/08 Sun
Author: Jonathan Dunn
Subject: Re: More on justice in the story of Noah
In reply to: Erin Risch 's message, "More on justice in the story of Noah" on 11:31:28 02/17/08 Sun

The guilty are always punished, in the final story. It seems that the crimes alleged againsts Noah's contemporaries are typical scapegoat allegations: incest, promiscuity, rabid violence.

Also, Noah is, according to the story, the source of all men who come after him; this means that all those who tell the story are identified with Noah. They get to wash their hands of the original violence because those who suffered were, in fact, the majority. It seems like another way of 1) justifying their destruction and 2) distancing those telling the myth from the source of their destruction.

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Re: More on justice in the story of Noah -- Erin Risch, 13:30:40 02/19/08 Tue