ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that modern interpreters in the field of biblical studies take an opposite direction from early readers. The analysis of interpretations in English and Spanish, geopolitical location, and methodological approaches investigates how modern interpreters deal with the hermeneutical problems of Gen. 4:1–16. They reconstruct the deity’s nature and conclude that its intervention is reasonably explained by the concept of “divine inscrutability.” This opens up the possibility of studying the deity using the Agambenian concepts of Sovereignty, bare life, and homo sacer in order to challenge the assumption that the deity should not be part of the hermeneutical analysis.
