A home for all : the story of the inversion of hospitality in Genesis 19
Kassa, Friday S. (2019-11-04)
CITATION: Kassa, F. S. 2019. A home for all : the story of the inversion of hospitality in Genesis 19. In die Skriflig, 53(1):a2493, doi:10.4102/ids.v53i1.2493.
The original publication is available at https://indieskriflig.org.za
Article
This article is a theological-ethical reading of the narrative of Lot’s hospitality in Genesis 19, using the hermeneutical lens of a Christian faith tradition. It considers hospitality as a living existential struggle that has crucial contemporary implications. The article poses the question: How do we see the arrival of ‘the other’ into our so-called ‘private and secure territory’? It then attempts a response to the question from the inversion of hospitality’s point of view and its resultant effects.