I said “Yes, my father would read to me from the gospels before I slept, and my mother made a gift to me of a King James Bible when I left their home to seek my fortune in New York City.”
“Then you are acquainted,” he said, “with the verse…Out from the paragraphs of nonsense and dubious astronomy, a narrative emerges; the star that came to Earth was no bigger than would fit in the palm of your hand. It was found by a seafaring merchant in Lagash who later sold it to a Babylon…
Mammon
theological · 2 mentions across 1 reading
In this course
Mammon appears primarily as a biblical and literary figure invoked to represent the personification of greed and material accumulation—a rhetorical anchor for discussing how wealth and desire operate within narrative systems. The course readings use Mammon obliquely, embedding him in speculative fiction and theological reference points that frame questions about value, exchange, and what gets preserved or transmitted across historical systems (the artifact passed from merchant to general). His presence here seems to function less as historical documentation than as a symbolic language for thinking about how economic drives structure knowledge and storytelling in both ancient and contemporary contexts.
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