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

• Superior document: Themes in biblical narrative, v. 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Luttikhuizen, Gerard P.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Themes in biblical narrative ; v. 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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).

Table of Contents

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