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Titolo |
Eve's children [[electronic resource] ] : the biblical stories retold and interpreted in Jewish and Christian traditions / / edited by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, MA, : Brill, 2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-46686-3 |
9786610466863 |
1-4237-1101-7 |
90-474-0161-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Collana |
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Themes in biblical narrative, , 1388-3909 ; ; v. 5 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Rabbinical literature - History and criticism |
Apocryphal books (Old Testament) - Criticism, interpretation, etc |
Christian literature, Early - History and criticism |
Gnosticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-227) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume is devoted to the biblical stories about Eve's children, Cain, |
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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). |
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