| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 237 pages) |
| Series |
Themes in biblical narrative ; v. 5 |
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Themes in biblical narrative ; v. 5.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Cain (Biblical figure) -- Congresses
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Abel (Biblical figure) -- Congresses
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Seth (Biblical figure) -- Congresses
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Abel (Biblical figure) |
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Cain (Biblical figure) |
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Seth (Biblical figure) |
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Set Biblische Person |
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Kain und Abel. |
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Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses
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Christian literature, Early -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Gnosticism -- Congresses
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
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Apocryphal books (Old Testament)
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Christian literature, Early
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Gnosticism
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Rabbinical literature
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Tradition
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Receptie.
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Oude Testament.
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Rabbijnse literatuur.
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Vroege kerk.
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Luttikhuizen, Gerard P.
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| ISBN |
1423711017 |
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9781423711018 |
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9047401611 |
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9789047401612 |
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9789004126152 |
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9004126155 |
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1280466863 |
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9781280466861 |
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9786610466863 |
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6610466866 |
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