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Titolo: |
Eve's children : the biblical stories retold and interpreted in Jewish and Christian traditions / / edited by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
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Pubblicazione: | Leiden ; ; Boston, MA, : Brill, 2003 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
Disciplina: | 222/.110922 |
Soggetto topico: | Rabbinical literature - History and criticism |
Apocryphal books (Old Testament) - Criticism, interpretation, etc | |
Christian literature, Early - History and criticism | |
Gnosticism | |
Altri autori: |
LuttikhuizenGerard P
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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). |
Titolo autorizzato: | Eve's children ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-280-46686-3 |
9786610466863 | |
1-4237-1101-7 | |
90-474-0161-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910824063003321 |
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