Creation by emission: reconstructing Adam and Eve in the Babylonian Talmud in light of Zoroastrian and Manichaean literature
This study attempts to broaden the Judeo-Christian prism through which the rabbinic legends of Adam and Eve are frequently examined in scholarship, by offering a contextual and synoptic reading of Babylonian rabbinic traditions pertaining to the first human couple against the backdrop of the Zoroast...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Liverpool University Press
[2015]
|
| In: |
The journal of Jewish studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 66, Issue: 2, Pages: 295-316 |
| RelBib Classification: | BC Ancient Orient; religion BF Gnosticism BH Judaism HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Manichaeism
B Adam Biblical person B Pre- and early history B Eve B Talmûd bavlî B Rabbinical literature B LIFE of Adam & Eve B Manichaeans B Zoroastrian literature B Zoroastrianism B Talmud |