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Genesis 1-3 in the history of exegesis : intrigue in the garden / edited by Gregory Allen Robbins. - Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, c1988. - xxviii, 282 p. ; 24 cm. - Studies in women and religion ; vol. 27 . - Studies in women and religion ; v. 27 .

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Gregory Allen Robbins -- The garden : once and not again : traditional interpretation of Genesis 1:26-17 in I Corinthians 11:7-12 / Mary Rose D'Angelo -- Adam, Eve, and the pastor : the use of Genesis 2-3 in the pastoral epistles / Jouette Bassler -- "Freedom from necessity" : philosophic and personal dimensions of Christian conversion / Elaine H. Pagels -- Heresy, asceticism, Adam, and Eve : interpretations of Genesis 1-3 in the later Latin fathers / Elizabeth A. Clark -- Eve, the mother of history : reaching for the reality of history in Augustine's later exegesis of Genesis / Susan E. Schreiner -- The cosmic mountain : Eden and its early interpreters in Syriac Christianity / Gary A. Anderson -- Some second thoughts about Adam's first wife / Jo Milgrom -- Brother and sister in Eden : the Shaker view of Genesis 1-3 / Sally L. Kitch.

ISBN: 0889465495

Subjects--Personal Names:
Adam (Biblical figure)
Eve (Biblical figure)

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Bible.--N.T.--Corinthians, 1st, XI, 7-12--Relation to the Old Testament.
Bible.--O.T.--Genesis I-III--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--Pastoral Epistles--Relation to the Old Testament.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Eden.

Dewey Class. No.: 222.1106 / R535g