Celibacy or Consummation in the Garden? Reflections on Early Jewish and Christian Interpretations of the Garden of Eden
The interpretation of Adam and Eve's sexual life was a matter of some concern for early Jewish and Christian exegetes. As Louis Ginzberg observed, several Jewish pseudepigraphical works as well as the writings of many of the early Church Fathers “presuppose that not only the birth of the childr...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1989
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1989, Volume: 82, Issue: 2, Pages: 121-148 |
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