Eve's children : the biblical stories retold and interpreted in Jewish and Christian traditions / / edited by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen.
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).
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| Superior document: | Themes in biblical narrative, v. 5 |
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| 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. |
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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