And So They Went Out: The Lives of Adam and Eve As Cultural Transformative Story - Couverture rigide

Arbel, Vita Daphna; Cousland, J.R.C.; Neufeld, Dietmar

 
9780567026798: And So They Went Out: The Lives of Adam and Eve As Cultural Transformative Story
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0567026795 ISBN 13 : 9780567026798
Editeur : T.& T.Clark Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

The phrase "and so they went out" is often used to describe the departure of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Yet it also aptly describes the many versions of the stories of Adam and Eve as they began to circulate about the turn of the Common Era: they too "went out", and the appearance of these stories in multiple versions and languages attests both to their widespread popularity and to their ongoing appeal in the ancient world. Nor is their appeal confined to antiquity-these stories continue to fascinate, and the various versions of the apocryphal "Books of Adam and Eve" have begun to command considerable attention in the academic world.

Thus far, the scholarly community has concentrated principally on the complex tradition-history of these texts, their date, provenance and language. But the process of the reshaping and transformation of the stories within the "Books of Adam and Eve" has not yet been thoroughly studied. This book sets out to redress this imbalance by focusing primarily upon conceptual, literary, and thematic issues. By making use contemporary critical methods such as literary-critical analysis, ritual theory, and social-scientific taxonomy, the book explores how these stories represent a profound transformation and reshaping of ancient attitudes to gender, body, sexuality, sin, social hierarchies, and human aspirations.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dietmar Neufeld is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

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Éditeur
T.& T.Clark Ltd
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0567026795
ISBN 13 
9780567026798
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
T&T CLARK
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9780567688347: '...And So They Went Out': The Lives of Adam and Eve as Cultural Transformative Story

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ISBN 10 :  0567688348 ISBN 13 :  9780567688347
Editeur : T&T Clark, 2019
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