Read as/with the Perpetrator: Manasseh’s vulnerability in 2 Kings 21:1-18 and 2 Chronicles 33:1-20
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Authors
Snyman, Gerrie
Issue Date
2017
Type
Working Paper
Language
en
Keywords
Vulnerability, perpetrator, racism, Manasseh
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Abstract
This paper will explore Manasseh’s vulnerability in both narratives in terms of the current reader’s own vulnerability. The paper will start by looking at the basis for vulnerability in terms of Levinas’ “ethical moment”; the prevailing negative understanding of vulnerability in current discourse and vulnerability as part of the human condition. It will then look at the presentation of Manasseh in the Kings narrative and its mirroring in Chronicles.