What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?

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 tex...

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Published: New Haven, CT Yale University Press 2013
In:Year: 2013
Reviews:[Rezension von: Zevit, Ziony, 1942-, What really happened in the Garden of Eden?] (2016) (Hawkins, Ralph K.)
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Eden
B Fall of man
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505 8 0 |a Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- A Preface about “Really” -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction: The Fall Is with Us Always -- -- PART ONE .Now and Then -- -- 1. The Fall in Interpretation -- -- 2. The Fall in the Hebrew Bible -- -- 3. Who Wrote the Garden Story and When? -- -- 4. What Is a Reader- Response Approach to Interpreting the Garden Story? -- -- 5. Reading, Presenting, and Evaluating the Garden Story -- -- PART TWO. Before Then -- -- 6. A Down- to- Earth Story (Gen 2:4– 7) -- -- 7. Why Eden? Why a Garden? Where Were the Trees? (Gen 2:5, 8– 10) -- -- 8. Where in the World Was Eden? (Gen 2:10– 14) -- -- 9. The Gardener and His Tasks (Gen 2:15) -- -- 10. The Second Commandment (Gen 2:16– 17) -- -- 11. The First Social Welfare Program (Gen 2:18– 20) -- -- 12. The First Lady (Gen 2:21– 23) -- -- 13. Why “Therefore”? (Gen 2:24) -- -- 14. How Bare Is Naked? (Gen 2:25) -- -- 15. Clever Conversation and Conspicuous Consumption (Gen 3:1– 6) -- -- 16. Dressing Up for a Dressing Down (Gen 3:7– 11) -- -- 17. Interrogation and Negotiation (Gen 3:11– 13) -- -- 18. Procreation in the Garden (Gen 3:14– 19; 4:1– 2) -- -- 19. Not a Leg to Stand On: Th e Serpent’s Sentence and the Israelite Culture of “Curse” (Gen 3:14– 15) -- -- 20. No Bundle of Joy: Hawwa’s Sentence and Israelite Predilections in Legal Reasoning (Gen 3:16) -- -- 21. Toil and Trouble: Adam’s Sentence and the Rights of Laborers (Gen 3:17– 19) -- -- 22. Out of the Garden (Gen 3:20– 24) -- -- PART THREE. Then and Now -- -- 23. The Essential Plot of the Garden Story -- -- 24. A Literal Translation of a Literary Text -- -- 25. Allusions to the Garden Story in the Hebrew Bible -- -- 26. Contra the Common Interpretation -- -- 27. Beyond the Tower of Babel -- -- Appendix: Transliterating Hebrew for Tourists in the Garden -- -- Notes -- -- Bibliography -- -- Index 
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