The Bible, especially the Old Testament, presents a reversal of perspective compared to non-biblical history: it tells stories from the viewpoint of victims (Abel, the Israelites leaving Egypt) rather than victors, which is a distinctive Girardian intuition about biblical narrative.
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“the Girardian intuition I would have is it's just always this this this reversal in perspective where uh the Bible takes things from the the side of the victim...the Cain and Abel story is told from point of view of Abel...you have this sort of inversion of perspectives.”
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