Beyond Eden
Subtitle: the biblical story of Paradise (Genesis 2-3) and its reception history
By: edited by Konrad Schmid and Christoph Riedweg
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe -- 34; Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 34.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9783161496462; 9783161511325; 9781280013119
Subjects: Analys och tolkning; Bible; Eden; Bibeln; Criticism, interpretation; Paradijs; Historia; Congresses; Receptie; Konferenser
Notes: "The essays in this volume began as papers delivered at a conference held on October 19-20, 2007 at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma and the Facoltà Valdese di Teologia in Rome"--Pref., p. [vii].

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Text in English and German; pref. in English and German.
Table of contents: title: Genesis 2-3: some fundamental questions  -- Jean-Louis Ska; title: Heaven on earth -- or not?: Jerusalem as Eden in biblical literature  -- Terje Stordalen; title: Loss of immortaility?: hermeneutical aspects of Genesis 2-3 and its early receptions  -- Konrad Schmid; title: Is God's creation good?: from Hesiodus to Ben Sira  -- Hermann Spieckermann; title: Sündenfall? Überlegungen zur theologischen Bedeutung der Paradiesgeschichte  -- Thomas Krüger; title: The earthen human, the breathing statue: the sculptor God, Greco-Roman statuary, and Clement of Alexandria  -- Laura Nasrallah; title: Satan and the serpent in the Armenian tradition  -- Michael E. Stone; title: Das Verbot, vom Baum der Erkenntnis von Gut und Böse zu essen (Gen 2,17): Zeichen eines missgünstigen Gottes? Kaiser Julian und Kyrill von Alexandrien in einer virtuellen Debatte  -- Christoph Riedweg; title: Coming to consciousness: knowing, choosing or stealing?: approaches to the story of the garden (Genesis 2-3) in medieval northern French Jewish exegesis  -- Michael A. Signer; title: The four rivers that flowed from Eden  -- Nira Stone; title: Genesis 1-3 and the sixteenth century reformers  -- Emidio Campi; title: Wozu Paradiese? -- Rüdiger Bittner.