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Can I read Eve's children : the biblical stories retold and interpreted in Jewish and Christian traditions on EtoBox?
Eve's children : the biblical stories retold and interpreted in Jewish and Christian traditions by Gerard P Luttikhuizen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Eve's children : the biblical stories retold and interpreted in Jewish and Christian traditions about?
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 (Old Testament Apocrypha, Philo of Alexandria, Targumim, the New Testament, Rabbinic and Kabbalistic texts, Christian-Gnostic and Patristic Literature). Attention is given also to post-biblical stories speaking about Eve's daughters and to traditions in which Cain is viewed as the son of the Devil. Three essays examine how the biblical stories were re-used and evaluated in modern fiction, from Clemens Brentano and Lord Byron to John Steinbeck's East of Eden
Who reads Eve's children : the biblical stories retold and interpreted in Jewish and Christian traditions?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gerard P Luttikhuizen
- Publisher
- Koninklijke Brill N.V.
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789047401612
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Christian, Bible, Religion
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