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Hidden truths from Eden : esoteric readings of Genesis 1-3 / edited by Caroline Vander Stichele and Susanne Scholz.

Contributor(s): Scholz, Susanne, 1963- [editor.] | Vander Stichele, Caroline [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Semeia studies: no. 76.Publisher: Atlanta : SBL Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: x, 286 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781628370126 (paper binding : alk. paper); 1628370122 (paper binding : alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible. Genesis, I-III -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History | Bible. Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History | Bible. Genesis, I-III -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish -- History | Bible. Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish -- History | Creation -- Biblical teachingDDC classification: 222/.1106 LOC classification: BS1235.52 | .H533 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
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 -- 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 Hedesan -- 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 Béla Hamvas (1897-1968) / László-Attila Hubbes -- The Bible and Africana esoterism : toward an architectonic for interdisciplinary study / Hugh R. Page Jr. -- Strategies of esoteric exegesis / Elaine Pagels -- Esotericism and biblical interpretation / Samuel D. Fohr.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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 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 Béla Hamvas (1897-1968) / László-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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