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

Contributor(s): Luttikhuizen, Gerard P
Material type: TextTextSeries: Themes in biblical narrative: v. 5.Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2003Description: xi, 237 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004126155 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Cain (Biblical figure) -- Congresses | Abel (Biblical figure) -- Congresses | Seth (Biblical figure) -- Congresses | Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses | Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses | Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism -- Congresses | Gnosticism -- CongressesDDC classification: 222/.110922 LOC classification: BS580.C3 | E94 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Eve's pain in childbearing? Interpretations of Gen 3:16a in biblical and early Jewish texts / Jacques van Ruiten -- Eve's children in the Targumim / 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 Mediterranean: 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: Byron'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.

Proceedings of a symposium of the Department of Biblical Studies, University of Groningen, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Eve's pain in childbearing? Interpretations of Gen 3:16a in biblical and early Jewish texts / Jacques van Ruiten -- Eve's children in the Targumim / 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 Mediterranean: 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: Byron'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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