From Eden to Eternity
Subtitle: Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780812247237
Subjects: Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., o. t. pentateuch; Paradise; Theological anthropolgy
Description: Introduction : creating paradise -- ch. 1. The body in Eden. Creating bodies ; Bodily functions ; The pleasures of paradise ; Being fruitful and multiplying ; The children of Eden ; What Adam knew ; Creating souls ; Eden as human habitat -- ch. 2. Power in paradise. Dominion over the animals ; Domestic dominion : the origins of economics ; Power and gender ; Unequal men : the origins of politics ; Power and possession : the origins of ownership ; The insubordinate fall -- ch. 3. Death and the paradise beyond. The death of the animal ; The body returns ; Representing paradise : from Eden to the patria ; Perfecting children's bodies ; Rewarding inequality ; Negotiating the material ; Resurrecting the senses ; Somewhere over the rainbow -- Coda : between paradises.