Titre :	Eve's children : the biblical stories retold and interpreted in Jewish and Christian traditions
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Gerard P. Luttikhuizen, Auteur
Editeur :	Leiden, Boston : Brill
Année de publication :	©2003
Collection :	Themes in biblical narrative num. v. 5.
Importance :	xi, 237 p.
Format :	25 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-90-04-12615-2
Note générale :	Includes bibliographical references and index
Langues :	Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	Abel (Biblical figure) Apocryphal books (Old Testament) Cain -- (Biblical figure) Christian literature, Early Gnosticism Rabbinical literature Seth (Biblical figure)
Index. décimale :	BS 580 .C3
Résumé :	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).
Note de contenu :	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.

Eve's children : the biblical stories retold and interpreted in Jewish and Christian traditions [texte imprimé] / Gerard P. Luttikhuizen, Auteur . - Leiden, Boston : Brill, ©2003 . - xi, 237 p. ; 25 cm. - (Themes in biblical narrative; v. 5.) .
ISBN : 978-90-04-12615-2
Includes bibliographical references and index
Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	Abel (Biblical figure) Apocryphal books (Old Testament) Cain -- (Biblical figure) Christian literature, Early Gnosticism Rabbinical literature Seth (Biblical figure)
Index. décimale :	BS 580 .C3
Résumé :	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).
Note de contenu :	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.