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摘要:保罗的σ α ρξ(“肉”)形象的有害遗产要求我们重新思考这个词在加拉太书4:21-5:1中夏甲寓言中的意义。Σάρξ被视为罪恶的精神化隐喻,这种联系延续了种族主义对奴隶制的制裁,以及对物质的性别化、性化的谴责。在与Hortense Spillers关于肉体的范式转换概念的对话中,我探索了这篇文章中强大而痛苦的图像,并关注了它们的具体化、社会和结构元素。在斯皮勒斯的构想中,在美国奴隶制的逻辑下,肉体是非洲人和非裔美国人的结构性剥夺、非人化和非性别化的场所,而身体则是白人暴力优势的场所。我提出,在加拉太书中,保罗的σ α ρξ表示脆弱和伤害,与πνε ο μα(“灵”)的形象所表示的安全相反。加拉太书将夏甲和以实玛利与σ α ρξ联系在一起,不是为了将这个被奴役的家庭与神隔离开来,而是为了引起人们对母亲和儿子被剥夺权利的社会关注。
Re-remembering Hagar: Reading the Σάρξ in Galatians with Hortense Spillers
Abstract:The harmful legacy of Paul's image of σάρξ ("flesh") demands a rethinking of the term's meaning in the allegory of Hagar in Gal 4:21–5:1. Σάρξ has been viewed as a spiritualized metaphor for sin, a connection that has perpetuated a racist sanction of slavery and a gendered, sexualized condemnation of materiality. In dialogue with Hortense Spillers's paradigm-shifting notion of the flesh, I explore the powerful and painful images in this passage with attention to their embodied, social, and structural elements. In Spillers's formulation, the flesh is a locus of the structural dispossession, dehumanization, and ungendering of African and African American people under the logics of American slavery, whereas the body is a locus of white people's violent advantage. I propose that in Galatians Paul's σάρξ indicates vulnerability and wounding, in contrast to the security indicated by the image of the πνεῦμα ("spirit"). Galatians associates Hagar and Ishmael with the σάρξ, not to distance this enslaved family from the divine but rather to call attention to the social disenfranchisement of both mother and son.