ISBN:
9789047401612
,
9789004126152
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Year of publication:
2003
Series Statement:
Themes in Biblical Narrative 5
Series Statement:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Eve's Children : The Biblical Stories Retold and Interpreted in Jewish and Christian Traditions
Keywords:
Apocryphal books (Old Testament) Congresses Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
Christian literature, Early Congresses History and criticism
;
Rabbinical literature Congresses History and criticism
Abstract:
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 (Old Testament Apocrypha, Philo of Alexandria, Targumim, the New Testament, Rabbinic and Kabbalistic texts, Christian-Gnostic and Patristic Literature). Attention is given also to post-biblical stories speaking about Eve's daughters and to traditions in which Cain is viewed as the son of the Devil. Three essays examine how the biblical stories were re-used and evaluated in modern fiction, from Clemens Brentano and Lord Byron to John Steinbeck's East of Eden
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- PART ONE: EVE'S SONS AND DAUGHTERS -- Eve's Pain in Childbearing? Interpretations of Gen 3:l6a in Biblical and Early Jewish Texts, Jacques van Ruiten -- Eve's Children in the Targumim, Florentino García Martínez -- The Twin Sisters of Cain and Abel: A Survey of the Rabbinic Sources, Lieve M. Teugels -- Eve's Demonic Offspring. A Jewish Motif in German Literature, Marcel Poorthuis -- PART TWO: CAIN AND ABEL -- Brothers and Fratricide in the Ancient Mediterranean: Israel, Greece and Rome, ]an N. Bremmer -- Gen 4:1-16. From Paradise to Reality: The Myth of Brotherhood, Ed Noort -- Cain and Abel as Character Traits: A Study in the Allegorical Typology of Philo of Alexandria, Hindy Najman -- Abel's Speaking in Hebrews 11:4 and 12:24, Ton Hilhorst -- Augustine on Cain and Abel, Rick Benjamins -- Milk and Blood, Heredity and Choice: Byron's Readings of Genesis, Bernard Beatty -- The Symbol Story of the Human Soul: Cain and Abel in Steinbeck's East of Eden , Barend Van Heusden -- PART THREE: SETH -- Seth in Sirach (Ben Sira 49:16), Eibert Tigchelaar -- Seth and the Sethites in Early Syriac Literature, Jürgen Tubach -- Gnostic Ideas about Eve's Children and the Salvation of Humanity, Gerard P. Luttikhuizen -- Bibliography of Recent Studies, Annemieke ter Brugge -- Index to Ancient Texts.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789047401612
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