Beschreibung
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index
Eve's pain in chlidbearing? : interpretations of Gen 3:16a in Biblical and early Jewish texts / Jacques van Ruiten -- Eve's children in the Targumin / 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 -- Brothers and fratricide in the ancient Mediterraanean : Israel, Greece and Rome / Jan 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 : Bryon'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 -- 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
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 (for example, Old Testament Apocrypha, Philo of Alexandria, and Targumim)
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ISBN:1423711017
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