Eve's Children

The Biblical Stories Retold and Interpreted in Jewish and Christian Traditions
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-12615-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Hebrew, Band 5, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Reihe: Themes in Biblical Narrative

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 (Old Testament Apocrypha, Philo of Alexandria, Targumim, the New Testament, Rabbinic and Kabbalistic texts, Christian-Gnostic and Patristic Literature). Attention is given also to post-biblical stories speaking about Eve’s daughters and to traditions in which Cain is viewed as the son of the Devil. Three essays examine how the biblical stories were re-used and evaluated in modern fiction, from Clemens Brentano and Lord Byron to John Steinbeck’s 'East of Eden'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Luttikhuizen, Gerard P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Abbreviations
Contributors

PART ONE: EVE'S SONS AND DAUGHTERS
Eve's Pain in Childbearing? Interpretations of Gen 3:l6a in Biblical and Early Jewish Texts, Jacques van Ruiten
Eve's Children in the Targumim, 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

PART TWO: CAIN AND ABEL
Brothers and Fratricide in the Ancient Mediterranean: Israel, Greece and Rome, ]an 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: Byron'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

PART THREE: SETH
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
Index to Ancient Texts

Über Autor(innen)

Gerard P. Luttikhuizen, Ph.D. (1984), is Professor of Early Christian Literature and New Testament Studies, University of Groningen. He is editor of Paradise Interpreted (Brill, 1999) and The Creation of Man and Woman (Brill, 2000), which are previous volumes in the series Themes in Biblical Narratives.