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



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Titolo: Eve's children : the biblical stories retold and interpreted in Jewish and Christian traditions / / edited by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen Visualizza cluster
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  
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  Visualizza cluster
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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Serie: Themes in biblical narrative ; ; v. 5.