Sodom's sin : : Genesis 18-19 and its interpretations / / edited by Ed Noort and Eibert Tigchelaar.

• Superior document: Themes in Biblical Narrative Series ; v.7
• TeilnehmendeR: Noort, Edward,; Tigchelaar, Eibert J. C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Themes in Biblical Narrative Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

"Sodom's Sin is devoted to the receptions of and reflections on the story of Sodom and Gomorrah as told in Genesis 18 and 19. Two articles discuss intertextual reactions to the Sodom narrative within the Hebrew Bible. Five contributions examine readings and rewritings of the Sodom narrative in early Jewish, Christian and Islamic writings: Jubilees, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament (Revelation 11), Targumim and early Koran commentaries. Two articles focus on separate themes: the punishment of the Dead Sea and the prohibition on looking back. Finally, two articles that focus on Peter Damian and Marcel Proust's Sodome et Gomorrhe 1 describe the later reception of the sin of Sodom as homosexuality. A bibliography of recent works completes the volume."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Preface -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- PART ONE : INTERTEXTUALITIES For the Sake of Righteousness. Abraham's Negotiations with YHWH as Prologue to the Sodom Narrative: Genesis 18:16-33 / ED NOORT -- Saul the Sodomite: Genesis 18-19 as the Opening Panel of a Polemic Triptych on King Saul / RAYMOND DE HOOP -- PART TWO : READINGSLot versus Abraham. The Interpretation of Genesis 18:1-19:38 in JubileesSodom and Gomorrah in the Dead Sea Scrolls / EIBERT TIGCHELAAR Sodom, Egypt, and the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11:8 / BERT JAN LIETAERT-PEERBOLTE Sodom and Gomorrah in the Targumim / FLORENTINO GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ -- Lūṭ and His People in the Koran and Its Early Commentaries / FRED LEEMHUIS -- PART THREE : THEMESThe Punishment of the Dead Sea: Martyrdom of Pionius 4.20 and its Precedents in Ben Sira and Africanus / TON HILHORST -- Don't Look Back: From the Wife of Lot to Orpheus and Eurydice / JAN BREMMER -- PART FOUR : SEXUALITIES Sodomites, Gays and Biblical Scholars. A Gathering Organized by Peter Damian? / PATRICK VANDERMEERSCH -- Homosexuality in Proust's Sodome et Gomorrhe I / ELS JONGENEEL -- Bibliography of Genesis 18-19 and Judges Since 1990, ANNEMIEKE TER BRUGGE -- References to Ancient Texts.