Death warning in the garden of Eden: the early reception history of Genesis 2:17
Cover -- Preface -- Title -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- A. Research question, objectives and scope -- B. Research context -- C. Course of analysis -- Chapter 2: The prohibition of Genesis 2:16-17 in Genesis -- A. Introduction -- B. Reconstruct...
| Résumé: | Cover -- Preface -- Title -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- A. Research question, objectives and scope -- B. Research context -- C. Course of analysis -- Chapter 2: The prohibition of Genesis 2:16-17 in Genesis -- A. Introduction -- B. Reconstructed text and translation -- I. Gen 2:16-17 -- II. Text notes -- C. Gen 2:16-17 in context: narrative with gaps and possibilities -- D. ביום ("in the day") -- E. מות תמות ("you shall surely die") -- F. Conclusion -- Chapter 3: The Punishment and Expulsion Revisited Gen 3:14-19, 22-24 -- A. Introduction -- B. Till you return to the ground -- C. Lest … he will live forever -- D. Text and translation -- I. Gen 3:22-24 -- II. Text notes -- III. Discussion -- E. Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Genesis 2:16-17 in the Septuagint -- A. Introduction -- B. Characteristics of the Greek translation of Genesis -- C. Narrative gaps and ambiguities translated in the LXX Genesis -- D. Text and translation -- E. ᾗ δ' ἂν ἡμέρᾳ φάγητε … ("in the day which you eat …") -- F. "You (pl.) shall not eat" and "by death, you (pl.) shall die" -- G. The translator's first encounter with the emphatic infinitive absolute in Gen 2:16-17: θανάτῳ ἀποθανεῖσθε ("by death, you shall die") -- H. Gen 2:16: βρώσει φάγῃ ("you may eat for food") -- I. Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Genesis 2:16-17 in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- A. Introduction -- B. DSS references to the divine command in Gen 2:17 -- I. 4Q2: 4Q Genesis -- II. 4Q8a: 4Q Genesis -- III. 4Q422: 4Q Paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus -- IV. 4Q303: 4QMeditation on Creation A -- C. DSS References to the punishment of Adam and Eve (Gen 3:14-24) -- I. 4Q504: Paroles des Luminaires (Words of the Luminaries) -- II. 4Q423: 4Q Instruction -- III. 4Q124: 4Q Unidentified Paleo-Hebrew text 1 -- D. Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Genesis 2:16-17 in the Book of Ben Sira. |
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| ISBN: | 3161588592 |