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

Contributor(s): Robbins, Gregory A
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in women and religion: v. 27.Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, [1988]Copyright date: ©1988Description: xxviii, 282 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0889465495Other title: Intrigue in the garden | Genesis one to three in the history of exegesisSubject(s): Eden | Bible. Genesis, I-III -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Eve (Biblical figure) | Adam (Biblical figure) | Bible. Corinthians, 1st, XI, 7-12 -- Relation to the Old Testament | Bible. Pastoral Epistles -- Relation to the Old TestamentBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
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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