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Beyond Eden : the biblical story of Paradise (Genesis 2-3) and its reception history / edited by Konrad Schmid and Christoph Riedweg.

Contributor(s): Schmid, Konrad, 1965- | Riedweg, Christoph
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, German Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament: Publisher: Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xiv, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783161496462 (pbk. : alk. paper); 3161496469 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible. Genesis, II-III -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses | Eden -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Genesis 2-3 : some fundamental questions / Jean-Louis Ska -- Heaven on earth - or not? : Jerusalem as Eden in biblical literature / Terje Stordalen -- Loss of immortality? : hermeneutical aspects of Genesis 2-3 and its early receptions / Konrad Schmidt -- Is God's creation good? : from Hesiodus to Ben Sira / Hermann Spieckermann -- Sündenfall? Überlegungen zur theologischen Bedeutung der Paradiesgeschichte / Thomas Krüger -- The earthen human, the breathing statue : the sculptor God, Greco-Roman statuary, and Clement of Alexandria / Laura Nasrallah -- Satan and the serpent in the Armenian Tradition / Michael E. Stone -- Das Verbot, vom Baum der Erkenntnis von Gut und Böse zu essen (Gen 2,17) : zeichen eines missgünstigen Gottes? Kaiser Julian und Kyrill von Alexandrien in einer virtuellen Debatte / Christoph Riedweg -- Coming to consciousness : knowing, choosing or stealing? : approaches to the story of the garden (Genesis 2-3) in medieval northern French Jewish exegesis / Michael A. Signer -- The four rivers that flowed from Eden / Nira Stone -- Wozu Paradiese? / Rüdiger Bittner.

"The essays in this volume began as papers delivered at a conference held on October 19-20, 2007 at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma and the Facoltà Valdese di Teologia in Rome."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Genesis 2-3 : some fundamental questions / Jean-Louis Ska -- Heaven on earth - or not? : Jerusalem as Eden in biblical literature / Terje Stordalen -- Loss of immortality? : hermeneutical aspects of Genesis 2-3 and its early receptions / Konrad Schmidt -- Is God's creation good? : from Hesiodus to Ben Sira / Hermann Spieckermann -- Sündenfall? Überlegungen zur theologischen Bedeutung der Paradiesgeschichte / Thomas Krüger -- The earthen human, the breathing statue : the sculptor God, Greco-Roman statuary, and Clement of Alexandria / Laura Nasrallah -- Satan and the serpent in the Armenian Tradition / Michael E. Stone -- Das Verbot, vom Baum der Erkenntnis von Gut und Böse zu essen (Gen 2,17) : zeichen eines missgünstigen Gottes? Kaiser Julian und Kyrill von Alexandrien in einer virtuellen Debatte / Christoph Riedweg -- Coming to consciousness : knowing, choosing or stealing? : approaches to the story of the garden (Genesis 2-3) in medieval northern French Jewish exegesis / Michael A. Signer -- The four rivers that flowed from Eden / Nira Stone -- Wozu Paradiese? / Rüdiger Bittner.

Text in English and German.

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