UID:
almafu_9959246018902883
Format:
1 online resource (297 pages).
ISBN:
1-62837-013-0
Series Statement:
Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies ; Number 76
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Includes indexes.
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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) / Lszl-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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-62837-014-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-62837-012-2
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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