Baik, Seok-Hyun. Logos of Curse and Rescue in Absalom, Absalom! The New Studies of English Language & Literature 49 (2011): 65-77. The paper, regarding multiple biblical parallels that pervade the novel, aims to understand the true nature of good and evil inherent in human life that Faulkner’s characters show, and further to understand the sense of history that Faulkner wants to reveal. Sutpen with Davidic parallels shows the powerful and paternal authority of the Old South, whose career and fate reflect the contradictions that prevail in the Southern society. Indeed, the nature of his success only originates from his distorted and egocentric ambition, which exposes the evil of racism, fratricide, the contradictions of patriarchy, and also results in the inevitable collapse of the South: the divine curse upon Sutpen. His son, Charles Bon, analogous to Amnon in the Bible, is related to incest-miscegenation, which after all brings about the fratricide, destroying Sutpen’s dream of founding a dynasty, as implied by the novel’s title. And he is also used as a metaphor for a Christ Figure: a symbol of suffering, sacrifice, and love that Faulkner seeks to embody in the novel. The biblical parallels, reshaped and recreated by Faulkner in the novel, seem to warn man of his arrogances and corruptions, regarding the timelessness and universality of human history that Hebrew history shows. (Daeshin University)