The Eden Narrative : : A Literary and Religio-Historical Study of Genesis 2-3 / / Tryggve N. D. Mettinger.
In 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 func...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A Narratological Analysis of the Eden Narrative
- 3. The Theme of the Eden Narrative
- 4. The Genre and Function of the Eden Narrative
- 5. Traces of a Tradition: The Adamic Myth in Ezekiel 28
- 6. Wisdom and Immortality in Adapa and Gilgamesh
- 7. Synthesis
- References
- Indexes