Where Were You When I Founded the Earth? : Essays on Primeval and Deuteronomistic History and Their Reception in Honor of Robert A. Di Vito.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrejevs, Olegs.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Di Vito, Robert A., 1950-.

Hermeneutics.

Deuteronomistic history (Biblical criticism).

Local Subjects:

Di Vito, Robert A., 1950-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (439 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, LLC, 2026.

Summary:

This collection of essays is dedicated to Robert A.Di Vito, a veteran member of the Department of Theology at Loyola University Chicago, where he has taught courses on the Pentateuch, the Prophets, classical Hebrew, and Dead Sea Scrolls.

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Robert A. Di Vito: Curriculum Vitae

Notes on Contributors

PART I: TRANSLATION

Traduttore, traditore: On the Pleasures and Perils of Translation

PART II: RECEPTION OF GENESIS 1-11 FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERN TIMES

Reception as Rewriting: Genesis 1-11 and the Sibylline Oracles

The Reception of Genesis 1 in the Johannine Prologue and Its Implications for John's Christology

Speaking up for Tiamat: Is ΒΙΒΛΟΣ ΓΕΝΕΣΕΩΣ (Gen 2:4

5:1

Matt 1:1) a Titular/Telescopic Reference to the Gospel of Matthew?

Allegory and Authority: Paul's Use of Genesis 3 in Romans 7:7-25

Beyond Eden. A Reflection on Recognition and Responsibility in Gen 4:1-16

"Nor Did His Brothers Believe in Him": Allusions to Fraternal Conflicts in Genesis in John 8:31-51*

Violence Against Animals and the Upturning of the Natural Order in Genesis 6, the Enochic Tradition, and the Pseudo- Clementine Homilies

Measuring Noah's Ark

The Racism of Creationism: Henry M. Morris and the "Curse of Ham" in Genesis 9

PART III: DEUTERONOMISTIC COMPOSITION

Texts at Work: On the Icon/Index Distinction and the Narrative Representation of Text-Artifacts in the Deuteronomic Composition

Bibliography

Index of Ancient Sources.

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Other Format:

Print version: Andrejevs, Olegs Where Were You When I Founded the Earth?

ISBN:

9781463249809

OCLC:

1592688245