| After Eden: Church Fathers and Rabbis on Genesis 3:16-21 Contributor(s): Reuling, Hanneke (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004146385 ISBN-13: 9789004146389 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $164.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: This book studies the afterlife of one of the most well known fragments of the Hebrew Bible. Following the lead of the bibical text through a number of patristic and classical rabbinic sources, it sheds new light on the way Church Fathers and Rabbis approach the themes of procreation, labour, mortality and corporeality. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Studies - Old Testament - General - Religion | Christianity - General - Religion | Judaism - General |
| Dewey: 222.110 |
| LCCN: 2005050138 |
| Series: Jewish and Christian Perspectives |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.56" W x 9.52" (1.31 lbs) 371 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume charts the interpretation of Genesis 3:16-21 in a number of patristic and classical rabbinic sources. It is a case study in the reception of a biblical fragment in two intrinsically related yet distinct interpretative communities: early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism. Following the lead of the biblical text, this study sheds new light on each traditions' view of the human condition, more specifically on the way Church Fathers and Rabbis approach the themes of procreation, labour, mortality and corporeality. The book carefully studies the reading of the biblical text as proposed by a number of representative and influential authors or documents, including Ambrose of Milan, Didymus the Blind, John Chrysostom and Augustine, as well as Genesis Rabbah and Avot de Rabbi Nathan. The introductions at the beginning of each chapter enable also the non-specialist to enter the distinct literary worlds of midrash and patristic Bible interpretation. |