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What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?

[Hardback]

by Ziony Zevit

    • Author

      Ziony Zevit

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Yale University Press

    • Published

      November 2013

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    What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?

    Today's Price £17.97

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    Product Description

    The Garden of Eden story, one of the most famous narratives in Western history, is typically read as an ancient account of original sin and humanity's fall from divine grace. In this highly innovative study, Ziony Zevit argues that this is not how ancient Israelites understood the early Biblical text. Drawing on such diverse disciplines as Biblical studies, geography, archaeology, mythology, anthropology, biology, poetics, law, linguistics, and literary theory, he clarifies the worldview of the ancient Israelite readers during the First Temple period and elucidates what the story probably meant in its original context. Most provocatively, he contends that our ideas about original sin are based upon misconceptions originating in the Second Temple period under the influence of Hellenism. He shows how, for Ancient Israelites, the story was really about how humans achieved ethical discernment. He argues further that Adam was not made from dust and that Eve was not made from Adam's rib. His study unsettles much of what has been taken for granted about the story for more than two millennia and has far-reaching implications for both literary and theological interpreters.

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    • Author

      Ziony Zevit

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Yale University Press

    • Published

      November 2013

    • Weight

      709g

    • Page Count

      320

    • Dimensions

      166 x 241 x 27 mm

    • ISBN

      9780300178692

    • ISBN-10

      0300178697

    • Eden Code

      4066745

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    • Author/Creator: Ziony Zevit

    • ISBN: 9780300178692

    • Publisher: Yale University Press

    • Release Date: November 2013

    • Weight: 709g

    • Dimensions: 166 x 241 x 27 mm

    • Eden Code: 4066745

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