What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?.
Cover -- Contents -- A Preface about "Really" -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Fall Is with Us Always -- PART ONE: Now and Then -- 1. The Fall in Interpretation -- 2. The Fall in the Hebrew Bible -- 3. Who Wrote the Garden Story and When? -- 4. What Is a Reader-Response Approach to...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven
Yale University Press
2013
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| In: | Year: 2013 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Zevit, Ziony, 1942-, What really happened in the Garden of Eden?] (2016) (Hawkins, Ralph K.)
[Rezension von: ZEVIT, ZIONY, What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?] (2014) (Matlock, Michael) |
| Further subjects: | B
Eden
B Electronic books B Bible ; Genesis, II-III ; Criticism, interpretation, etc B Fall of man |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9780300178692 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Contents -- A Preface about "Really" -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Fall Is with Us Always -- PART ONE: Now and Then -- 1. The Fall in Interpretation -- 2. The Fall in the Hebrew Bible -- 3. Who Wrote the Garden Story and When? -- 4. What Is a Reader-Response Approach to Interpreting the Garden Story? -- 5. Reading, Presenting, and Evaluating the Garden Story -- PART TWO: Before Then -- 6. A Down-to-Earth Story (Gen 2:4-7) -- 7. Why Eden? Why a Garden? Where Were the Trees? (Gen 2:5, 8-10) -- 8. Where in the World Was Eden? (Gen 2:10-14) -- 9. The Gardener and His Tasks (Gen 2:15) -- 10. The Second Commandment (Gen 2:16-17) -- 11. The First Social Welfare Program (Gen 2:18-20) -- 12. The First Lady (Gen 2:21-23) -- 13. Why "Therefore"? (Gen 2:24) -- 14. How Bare Is Naked? (Gen 2:25) -- 15. Clever Conversation and Conspicuous Consumption (Gen 3:1-6) -- 16. Dressing Up for a Dressing Down (Gen 3:7-11) -- 17. Interrogation and Negotiation (Gen 3:11-13) -- 18. Procreation in the Garden (Gen 3:14-19 -- 4:1-2) -- 19. Not a Leg to Stand On: The Serpent's Sentence and the Israelite Culture of "Curse" (Gen 3:14-15) -- 20. No Bundle of Joy: Hawwa's Sentence and Israelite Predilections in Legal Reasoning (Gen 3:16) -- 21. Toil and Trouble: Adam's Sentence and the Rights of Laborers (Gen 3:17-19) -- 22. Out of the Garden (Gen 3:20-24) -- PART THREE: Then and Now -- 23. The Essential Plot of the Garden Story -- 24. A Literal Translation of a Literary Text -- 25. Allusions to the Garden Story in the Hebrew Bible -- 26. Contra the Common Interpretation -- 27. Beyond the Tower of Babel -- Appendix: Transliterating Hebrew for Tourists in the Garden -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. |
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| ISBN: | 0300195338 |