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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450519403321

Titolo

Eve's children [[electronic resource] ] : the biblical stories retold and interpreted in Jewish and Christian traditions / / edited by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, MA, : Brill, 2003

ISBN

1-280-46686-3

9786610466863

1-4237-1101-7

90-474-0161-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Themes in biblical narrative, , 1388-3909 ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

LuttikhuizenGerard P

Disciplina

222/.110922

Soggetti

Rabbinical literature - History and criticism

Apocryphal books (Old Testament) - Criticism, interpretation, etc

Christian literature, Early - History and criticism

Gnosticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-227) and index.

Nota di contenuto

PART ONE: EVE'S SONS AND DAUGHTERS --  Eve’s Pain in Childbearing? -- Interpretations of Gen 3:16a in Biblical and Early Jewish Texts -- Eve’s Children in the Targumim -- The Twin Sisters of Cain and Abel: A Survey of the Rabbinic Sources -- Eve’s Demonic Offspring. A Jewish Motif in German Literature --  PART TWO: CAIN AND ABEL --  Brothers and Fratricide in the Ancient Mediterranean: Israel, Greece and Rome -- Gen 4:1–16. From Paradise to Reality: The Myth of Brotherhood -- Cain and Abel as Character Traits: A Study in the Allegorical Typology of Philo of Alexandria -- Abel’s Speaking in Hebrews 11:4 and 12:24 -- Augustine on Cain and Abel -- Milk and Blood, Heredity and Choice: Byron’s Readings of Genesis --  The Symbol Story of the Human Soul: Cain and Abel in Steinbeck’s East of Eden -- PART THREE: SETH -- Seth in Sirach (Ben Sira 49:16) -- Seth and the Sethites in Early Syriac Literature -- Gnostic Ideas about Eve’s Children and the Salvation of Humanity



Sommario/riassunto

This volume is devoted to the biblical stories about Eve's children, Cain, Abel and Seth, and to the rewritings and explanations of these stories in a variety of early Jewish and Christian sources (for example, Old Testament Apocrypha, Philo of Alexandria, and Targumim).