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Lecture V: The Christian Revelation | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

Johnathan Bi

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Pagan Mythology and the Story of Joseph

There seems to be a superficial similarity to pagan myth here. But it is also different in the most important ways. Both acts of expulsion are painted as unjust, even if the same acts in pagan mythology were more than enough to justify victims' expulsions. Joseph's seminal act is not one of sacrifice and scapegoating, but of forgiveness. As a result, the characters of the story are not made sacred, deified like pagan characters. Given a divine aura of power seeming more than human, they are simply humanized.

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