LEADER 03666oam 22006014a 450 001 9910814302103321 005 20230516194546.0 010 $a1-57506-586-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781575065861 035 $a(CKB)2550000000039476 035 $a(OCoLC)747412047 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10483391 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000536105 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12242286 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536105 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10546736 035 $a(PQKB)11169537 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3155543 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10483391 035 $a(DE-B1597)584185 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781575065861 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_80934 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3155543 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000039476 100 $a20080326d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Eden Narrative$eA Literary and Religio-Historical Study of Genesis 2-3 /$fby Tryggve N.D. Mettinger 210 1$aWinona Lake, IN :$cEisenbrauns,$d2007. 210 4$dİ2007. 215 $a1 online resource (185 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-57506-141-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 136-155) and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tPreface --$tAbbreviations --$t1. Introduction --$t2. A Narratological Analysis of the Eden Narrative --$t3. The Theme of the Eden Narrative --$t4. The Genre and Function of the Eden Narrative --$t5. Traces of a Tradition: The Adamic Myth in Ezekiel 28 --$t6. Wisdom and Immortality in Adapa and Gilgamesh --$t7. Synthesis --$tReferences --$tIndexes 330 $aIn a book marked by unusually readable yet academic style, Mettinger transforms our knowledge of the story of Eden in Genesis. He shows us a story focused on a divine test of human obedience, with human disobedience and its consequences as its main theme. Both of the special trees in Eden had a function: the tree of knowledge as the test case, and the tree of life as the potential reward for obedience. Mettinger adopts a two-tiered approach. In a synchronic move, he understakes a literary analysis that yields striking observations on narratology, theme, and genre in the text studied. He defines the genre as myth and subjects the narrative to a functional analysis. He then applies a diachronic approach and presents a tradition-historical reconstruction of an Adamic myth in Ezekiel 28. The presence of both wisdom and immortality in this myth leads to a discussion of these divine prerogatives in Mesopotamian literature (remember Adapa and Gilgamesh). The two prerogatives demarcated an ontological boundary between the divine and human spheres. Nevertheless, the Eden Narrative does not evaluate the human desire to obtain knowledge or wisdom negatively. A piece of fresh, original scholarship in accessible form, this book is ideal for courses on creation, primeval history, the Bible and literature, and the Bible and the ancient Near East. 606 $aParadijs$2gtt$3(NL-LeOCL)078622190 606 $aGenesis (bijbelboek)$2gtt$3(NL-LeOCL)078516897 606 $a11.41 study and interpretation of the Old Testament$3(NL-LeOCL)077594223$2bcl 615 17$aParadijs. 615 17$aGenesis (bijbelboek) 615 7$a11.41 study and interpretation of the Old Testament. 676 $a222/.1106 700 $aMettinger$b Tryggve N.D.$f1940-$01686547 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814302103321 996 $aThe Eden Narrative$94059468 997 $aUNINA