Paradise Interpreted : : Representations of Biblical Paradise in Judaism and Christianity / / edited by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen.

• Superior document: Themes in Biblical Narrative Series ; Volume 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Luttikhuizen, Gerard P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Themes in biblical narrative ; Volume 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 218 pages)

This study on the representations of Paradise in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 2-3 and Ezekiel 28) also deals with the reception of the biblical accounts in early Jewish writings (Enochic texts, the Book of Jubilees, Qumran texts) in Rabbinics and Kabbalah, early mainstream Christianity and in early Christian apocryphal and Gnostic literature. Two further chapters are devoted to views of Paradise in the Christian Middle Ages. The volume concludes with the interpretation of Paradise in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost.

Table of Contents

Paradise : from Persia, via Greece, into the Septuagint / J.N. Bremmer -- Gan-Eden in the context of the mythology of the Hebrew Bible / E. Noort -- Eden and paradise : the garden motif in some early Jewish texts (1 Enoch and other texts found at Qumran) / E.J.C. Tigchelaar -- Eden and the temple : the rewriting of Genesis 2:4-3:24 in The book of jubilees / J.T.A.G.M. van Ruiten -- Man and woman : halakhah based upon Eden in the Dead Sea scrolls / F. García Martínez -- Paradise as paradigm : good and evil in rabbinica and kabbalah / W.J. van Bekkum -- A visit to paradise : Apocalypse of Paul 45 and its background / A. Hilhorst -- A resistant interpretation of the paradise story in the gnostic Testimony of truth (Nag Hamm. Cod. IX. 3) 45-50 / G.P. Luttikhuizen -- Paradisiacal life : the story of paradise in the early church / H.S. Benjamins -- Paradise now -- but for the wall between : some remarks on paradise in the middle ages / Chr. Auffarth -- Russian medieval concepts of paradise / S. Brouwer -- Milton and Genesis : interpretation as persuasion / H. Wilcox.