Genesis 1-3 in the history of exegesis : intrigue in the garden / edited by Gregory Allen Robbins.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in women and religion ; v. 27Publication details: Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, c1988.Description: xxviii, 282 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0889465495
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 222.1106 R535g
Contents:
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.

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.

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