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11.41 study and interpretation of the Old Testament. --- Bible. --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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In a book marked by unusually readable yet academic style, Mettinger transforms our knowledge of the story of Eden in Genesis. He shows us a story focused on a divine test of human obedience, with human disobedience and its consequences as its main theme. Both of the special trees in Eden had a function: the tree of knowledge as the test case, and the tree of life as the potential reward for obedience. Mettinger adopts a two-tiered approach. In a synchronic move, he understakes a literary analysis that yields striking observations on narratology, theme, and genre in the text studied. He defines the genre as myth and subjects the narrative to a functional analysis. He then applies a diachronic approach and presents a tradition-historical reconstruction of an Adamic myth in Ezekiel 28. The presence of both wisdom and immortality in this myth leads to a discussion of these divine prerogatives in Mesopotamian literature (remember Adapa and Gilgamesh). The two prerogatives demarcated an ontological boundary between the divine and human spheres. Nevertheless, the Eden Narrative does not evaluate the human desire to obtain knowledge or wisdom negatively. A piece of fresh, original scholarship in accessible form, this book is ideal for courses on creation, primeval history, the Bible and literature, and the Bible and the ancient Near East.

Eden. --- Garden of Eden --- Paradise --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Paradijs. --- Genesis (bijbelboek) --- 11.41 study and interpretation of the Old Testament.

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3 Maccabees is among the most neglected books of the Old Testament Apocrypha. This new commentary is one of very few written in the last century, and it is the only full-scale commentary in English. The volume includes a fresh translation of the Greek text of Alexandrinus, an introduction, a section by section commentary replete with cross-references to ancient literature and citations of modern scholarship, a bibliography, and indices. A novel contribution of the commentary is an interpretation of 3 Maccabees as, in part, a narrative satire on the cult of Dionysus.

222.9 --- Makkabeeën --- Third Book of Maccabees --- Bible. --- 3 Maccabees (Apocryphal book) --- Maccabaeorum liber tertius --- 3rd Maccabees (Apocryphal book) --- Third Maccabees (Apocryphal book) --- Apocrypha and pseudepigraphs --- 11.41 study and interpretation of the Old Testament.

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From Revelation to Canon is a collection of essays that offers studies of texts, traditions, and themes from the Hebrew Bible and from the extra-biblical literature of the second-temple period. Included in it are studies of apocalypticism, the high priesthood, calendars and festivals, and a series of essays on aspects of 1 Enoch and the Book of Jubilees. There is also a previously unpublished essay on the development of a canon of scripture in Judaism. The volume gathers in one place, papers that were originally published in several journals, volumes of essays, and Festschriften. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Bible. --- Ethiopic book of Enoch --- Book of Jubilees --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- 221 <08> --- Bijbel: Oud Testament--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Bible. Old Testament --- Criticism and interpretation --- Book of Enoch, Ethiopic --- Enoch, Ethiopic Book of --- Book of the Ethiopic Enoch --- Äthiopischer Henoch --- Buch Henoch --- 1 Enoch (Apocryphal book) --- First Enoch (Apocryphal book) --- 1st Enoch (Apocryphal book) --- Little Genesis --- Jubilees --- Livre des Jubilés --- Petite Genèse --- Buch der Jubiläen --- Kleine Genesis --- Liber Jubilaeorum --- Parva Genesis --- Jubiläenbuch --- Sefer ha-Yovlim --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- 11.37 Apocrypha and pseudepigraphs --- 11.41 study and interpretation of the Old Testament --- Book of Jubilees (apocryphal) --- Essay collection