Research Catalog

Title

Adam and Eve story in the Hebrew Bible and in ancient Jewish writings including the New Testament / edited by Antti Laato and Lotta Valve.

Publication

Turku, Finland : Åbo Akademi University ; Winona Lake, Indiana, USA : Eisenbrauns, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Laato, Antti
• Valve, Lotta, 1978-

Description

viii, 395 pages; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in the reception history of the Bible ; 7

Subject

• Adam (Biblical figure)
• Eve (Biblical figure)
• Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Forbidden fruit

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Understanding the story of Adam and Eve in the Second Temple period / Antti Laato and Lotta Valve -- Creation and Fall in Canaanite mythology / Marjo C. A. Korpel and Johannes C. de Moor -- Adam and the divine council: looking behind Genesis 1-11 and Deurteronoomy 32 / Antti Laato -- Does Mal 2:15a refer to Adam and Eve in the creation account in Gen 2:4-25? / Karl William Weyde -- From Adam to wayyal: Chronicles as rewritten Bible / Magnar Kartveit -- Adam translated, transcribed and recycled: Ben Sira in Hebrew and Greek / Anders Aschim -- Adam in the Book of Jubilees / Jacques van Ruiten -- Adam in Qumran wisdom literature with special regard to 4QInstruction / Jesper Høgenhaven -- The figures of Adam and Eve in the Enoch tradition / Christfried Böttrich -- "Call him earth": on Philo's allegorization of Adam in the Legum allegoriae / Sami Yli-Karjanmaa -- Adam and Eve in Paul / Lukas Bormann -- The Gentiles in Adam: Adam in Amos 9:11-12 / Jonatan Ådahl -- A tale from a golden age: Adam and his progeny in Josephus' Jewish antiquities / Martin Friis.

ISBN

• 9521234148
• 9789521234149

OCLC

• 953327504
• SCSB-11478229

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library