Eve's children : the biblical stories retold and interpreted in Jewish and Christian traditions /

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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).

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Luttikhuizen, Gerard P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Griego
Hebrew
Published: Leiden ; Boston, MA : Brill, 2003.
Series:Themes in biblical narrative ; v. 5.
Subjects:
Cain > (Biblical figure) > Congresses.
Abel > (Biblical figure) > Congresses.
Seth > (Biblical figure) > Congresses.
Abel > (Biblical figure)
Cain > (Biblical figure)
Seth > (Biblical figure)
Set > Biblische Person
Kain und Abel.
Rabbinical literature > History and criticism > Congresses.
Apocryphal books (Old Testament) > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > Congresses.
Christian literature, Early > History and criticism > Congresses.
Gnosticism > Congresses.
Littérature rabbinique > Histoire et critique > Congrès.
Apocryphes (Ancien Testament) > Critique, interprétation, etc. > Congrès.
Littérature chrétienne primitive > Histoire et critique > Congrès.
Gnosticisme > Congrès.
RELIGION > Biblical Studies > Old Testament.
Apocryphal books (Old Testament)
Christian literature, Early
Gnosticism
Rabbinical literature
Tradition
Receptie.
Oude Testament.
Rabbijnse literatuur.
Vroege kerk.
Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Eve's pain in chlidbearing? : interpretations of Gen 3:16a in Biblical and early Jewish texts / Jacques van Ruiten
  • Eve's children in the Targumin / Florentino García Martínez
  • The twin sisters of Cain and Abel : a survey of the Rabbinic sources / Lieve M. Teugels
  • Eve's demonic offspring : a Jewish motif in German literature / Marcel Poorthuis
  • Brothers and fratricide in the ancient Mediterraanean : Israel, Greece and Rome / Jan N. Bremmer
  • Gen 4:1-16 : from paradise to reality : the myth of brotherhood / Ed Noort
  • Cain and Abel as character traits : a study in the allegorical typology of Philo of Alexandria / Hindy Najman
  • Abel's speaking in Hebrews 11:4 and 12:24 / Ton Hilhorst
  • Augustine on Cain and Abel / Rick Benjamins
  • Milk and blood, heredity and choice : Bryon's readings of Genesis / Bernard Beatty
  • The symbol story of the human soul : Cain and Abel in Steinbeck's East of Eden / Barend van Heusden
  • Seth in Sirach (Ben Sira 49:16) / Eibert Tigchelaar
  • Seth and the Sethites in early Syriac literature / Jürgen Tubach
  • Gnostic ideas about Eve's children and the salvation of humanity / Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
  • Bibliography of recent studies / Annemieke ter Brugge.

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