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Hidden truths from Eden : esoteric readings of Genesis 1-3 / edited by Caroline Vander Stichele and Susanne Scholz.
Van Pelt Library BS1235.52 .H533 2014
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Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BS1235.52 .H533 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Semeia studies ; no. 76.
- Semeia studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Genesis, I-III--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History.
- Bible.
- Bible. Genesis, I-III--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish--History.
- Creation--Biblical teaching.
- Creation.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 286 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta : SBL Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- "This unique volume features case studies and examples of diverse esoteric interpretive approaches and methodologies focusing on Genesis 1-3 and covering different periods from early Christian discourse through Zoharic, Kabbalistic and alchemical literature to modern and post-postmodern approaches"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part 1: Early Christian explorations. Adam, Eve, and the serpent in the acts of Andrew / Anna Rebecca Solevig
- Imperial propaganda in paradise? : Christ as eagle in the Apocryphon of John / Tuomas Rasimus
- A fitting portrait of God : Origen's interpretations of the "Garments of Skin" (Gen 3:21) / Peter W. Martens
- Part 2: Zoharic, Kabbalistic, and alchemical speculations. Bifurcating the androgyne and engendering sin : a Zoharic reading of Gen 1-3 / Elliot R. Wolfson
- The Genesis of Christian Kabbalah : early modern speculations on the work of creation / Peter J. Forshaw
- The mystery of Mysterium Magnum : Paracelsus's alchemical interpretation of creation in Philosophia ad Atheniensis and its early modern commentators / Georgiana (Jo) Hedesan
- Part 3: From modern to post-postmodern (re- )visions. Beyond postmodernism? : esoteric interpretations of Gen 1-3 / by E. Swedenborg, R. Steiner, and S.D. Fohr, Susanne Scholz
- Restoring a broken creation during times of Apocalypse : an essay on the analogical symbolism of fall and integrity in the metaphysics of Bila Hamvas (1897/1968) / Laszlo-Attila Hubbes
- The Bible and Africana esoterism : toward an architectonic for interdisciplinary study / Hugh R. Page Jr.
- Part 4: Responses. Strategies of esoteric exegesis / Elaine Pagels
- Esotericism and biblical interpretation / Samuel D. Fohr.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781628370126
- 1628370122
- 9781628370140
- 1628370149
- OCLC:
- 884440119
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