Adam and Eve story in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic perspectives

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"In August 2014 a conference was organized in Turku with the topic Where are you, Adam? A New Understanding of Adam in Jewish-Christian-Muslim Context. The conference was a part of a research project which was funded by the Academy of Finland during the years 2013 2017. Almost 30 papers were presented in the conference and they, together with two other papers, are published in the volumes SRB 7 and 8. This volume, SRB 8, Adam and Eve Story in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Perspectives, consists of the papers which are related to the interpretation of the Adam and Eve story in patristic, rabbinical, Islamic, medieval and later Jewish and modern texts"--back cover.

Title Adam and Eve story in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic perspectives / Antti Laato, Lotta Valve, editors.
Additional Titles Adam and Eve story
Contributors Laato, Antti (editor)
Publisher Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns
Turku, Finland : Åbo Akademi University
Creation Date 2017
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Understanding the Story of Adam and Eve in Three Abrahamic Religions / Antti Laato and Lotta Valve -- Adam in Patristic Literature: Some Issues of Anthropology and Ethics / Martin Meiser -- The Problem Concerning the Historical Adam in the Theology of Origen / Gunnar af Hällström -- Adam's Ecstasy and Prophecy in Tertullian / Anni Maria Laato Adam and Eve Rewritten in Vergil's Words: Cento of Proba / Anni Maria Laato -- You Are Adam: The Rhetorical Presence of Adam in Augustine's Sermons and in His Audience / Timo Nisula -- The Adam of the Syrian Cave of Treasures / Martin Tamcke -- Adam's Instruction on Full Knowledge: An East Syrian Theological Issue According to Narsai and Giwargis I / Catalin-Stefan Popa -- The Theological Perspective on Adam and the Inclination toward Sin in the Book of the Rose / Maros Nicak -- Back to Paradise: Adam and Eve in Romanos Melodos / Erkki Koskenniemi -- The Glory of Adam: Some Aspects of the Portrayal of Adam in Rabbinical Writings / Günter Stemberger -- Where Was Adam, Who Bears the Blame? / Pekka Lindqvist -- The Biblical Adam in Islamic Traditions and Literature / Roberto Tottoli -- Controversies on the Creation of Man in Abraham ibn Ezra's Exegesis / Mariano Gomez Aranda -- Adam ha-rishon and His Offspring in Search of Knowledge: Some Themes in Pre-Modern Jewish Writings / Hannu Töyrylä -- Creation and Creativity in Dara Horn's Novel In the Image / Ruth Illman.
Series Studies in the reception history of the Bible
8
Extent viii, 394 pages
22 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990040946240205171

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