Hidden truths from Eden
Subtitle: esoteric readings of Genesis 1-3
By: edited by Caroline Vander Stichele and Susanne Scholz
Series: Society of Biblical Literature. Semeia studies -- number 76; Semeia studies -- no. 76.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781628370126; 9781628370133; 9781628370140
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish; Bible; Criticism, interpretation; Creation; Bible teaching; History
Description: "This unique volume features case studies and examples of diverse esoteric interpretive approaches and methodologies focusing on Genesis 1-3 and covering different periods from early Christian discourse through Zoharic, Kabbalistic and alchemical literature to modern and post-postmodern approaches"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Table of contents: title: Part 1: Early Christian explorations. Adam, Eve, and the serpent in the acts of Andrew / Anna Rebecca Solevig; title: Imperial propaganda in paradise? Christ as eagle in the Apocryphon of John Tuomas Rasimus; title: A fitting portrait of God: Origen's interpretations of the "Garments of Skin" (Gen 3:21) / Peter W. Martens; title: Part 2: Zoharic, Kabbalistic, and alchemical speculations. Bifurcating the androgyne and engendering sin: a Zoharic reading of Gen 1/3 / Elliot R. Wolfson; title: The Genesis of Christian Kabbalah: early modern speculations on the work of creation / Peter J. Forshaw; title: The mystery of Mysterium Magnum: Paracelsus's alchemical interpretation of creation in Philosophia ad Atheniensis and Its early modern commentators / Georgiana (Jo) Hedesan; title: Part 3: From modern to post-postmodern (re- )visions; title: Beyond postmodernism? esoteric interpretations of Gen 1/3 / by E. Swedenborg, R. Steiner, and S.D. Fohr, Susanne Scholz; title: Restoring a broken creation during times of Apocalypse: an essay on the analogical symbolism of fall and integrity in the metaphysics of Bila Hamvas (1897/1968) / Lszl-Attila Hubbes; title: The Bible and Africana esoterism: toward an architectonic for interdisciplinary study / Hugh R. Page Jr.; title: Part 4: Responses. Strategies of esoteric exegesis / Elaine Pagels; title: Esotericism and biblical interpretation / Samuel D. Fohr.