Literature on Adam and Eve: Collected Essays

Gary Alan Anderson, Michael Edward Stone, Johannes Tromp

BRILL, Jan 1, 2000 - Religion - 388 pages

For many centuries, the acts and destinies of the first-created human beings, Adam and Eve, have intrigued artists, story-tellers and theologians alike. This volume is a collection of articles on these traditions, written by some of the foremost scholars in the field. The volume consists of two parts. In the first part G.A. Anderson and M.E. Stone, close collaborators for years, have combined a number of studies on the rich variety of Adam and Eve-traditions, from the "Life of Adam and Eve" onwards to late medieval writings in Armenian. The second part, edited by Joh. Tromp, consists of papers read at the 1998 Leiden symposium, and deals more specifically with the "Life of Adam and Eve,"

Contents

• The Penitence Narrative in the Life of Adam and Eve: 3
• Three Notes: 43
• The Punishment of Adam and Eve in the Life: 57
• The Exaltation of Adam and the Fall of Satan: 83
• The Angelic Prediction in the Primary Adam Books: 111
• Ezekiel 28 the Fall of Satan and the Adam Books: 133
• The Legend of the Cheirograph of Adam: 149
• Selections from On the Creation of the World by Yovhannēs: 167
• A Proposal: 215
• Edited: 233
• The Literary Development of the Life of Adam and Eve: 239
• The Exoneration and Denigration of Eve in the Greek Life: 251
• Cain and Abel in the Greek and ArmenianGeorgian: 277
• Sünde Buße und Gnade in dem Leben Adams und Evas: 297
• Die Ätiologie des Ackerbaus in Vita: 315
• The Christian Origin of the Greek Life of Adam and Eve: 347
• Bibliography: 365
• Indices: 375

About the author

Gary A. Anderson is Professor of Hebrew/Old Testament at Harvard Divinity School. Michael E. Stone is Gail Levin de Nur Professor of Religion and Professor of Armenian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Johannes Tromp is Lecturer of Ancient Israelite Religion and Greco-Roman Judaism at Leiden University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Literature on Adam and Eve: Collected Essays; Armenian Research Center collection; Volume 15 of Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha
• Editors: Gary Alan Anderson, Michael Edward Stone, Johannes Tromp
• Publisher: BRILL, 2000
• ISBN: 9004116001, 9789004116009
• Length: 388 pages
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