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What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?

by Ziony Zevit

  • Hardback
  • 320 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • 16.6 x 24.1 x 2.7 cm

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The Garden of Eden story, one of the most famous narratives in Western history, is typically read as an ancient account of original sin and humanity's fall from divine grace. In this highly innovative study, Ziony Zevit argues that this is not how ancient Israelites understood the early Biblical text. Drawing on such diverse disciplines as Biblical studies, geography, archaeology, mythology, anthropology, biology, poetics, law, linguistics, and literary theory, he clarifies the worldview of the ancient Israelite readers during the First Temple period and elucidates what the story probably meant in its original context. Most provocatively, he contends that our ideas about original sin are based upon misconceptions originating in the Second Temple period under the influence of Hellenism. He shows how, for Ancient Israelites, the story was really about how humans achieved ethical discernment. He argues further that Adam was not made from dust and that Eve was not made from Adam's rib. His study unsettles much of what has been taken for granted about the story for more than two millennia and has far-reaching implications for both literary and theological interpreters.
What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden? and Subtle Citation, Allusion and Translation in the Hebrew Bible
Subtle Citation, Allusion and Translation in the Hebrew BibleWhat Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?

  • Author

    Ziony Zevit

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Yale University Press

  • Published

    November 2013

  • Weight

    709g

  • Page Count

    320

  • Dimensions

    16.6 x 24.1 x 2.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780300178692

  • ISBN-10

    0300178697

  • Eden Code

    4066745

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