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What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?

Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2013

About this book

A renowned biblical scholar contends that we have misconstrued the meaning and lessons of the Garden of Eden story for more than two millennia

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Ziony Zevit is Distinguished Professor of Biblical Literature and Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He is widely recognized for his publications in Hebrew epigraphy, biblical studies, and ancient Israelite religion.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    A Preface about “Really”

    ix
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    Acknowledgments

    xvii
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    Introduction: The Fall Is with Us Always

    xix
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  • PART ONE .Now and Then
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    1. The Fall in Interpretation

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    2. The Fall in the Hebrew Bible

    18
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    3. Who Wrote the Garden Story and When?

    28
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    4. What Is a Reader- Response Approach to Interpreting the Garden Story?

    48
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    5. Reading, Presenting, and Evaluating the Garden Story

    54
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  • PART TWO. Before Then
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    6. A Down- to- Earth Story (Gen 2:4– 7)

    73
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    7. Why Eden? Why a Garden? Where Were the Trees? (Gen 2:5, 8– 10)

    85
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    8. Where in the World Was Eden? (Gen 2:10– 14)

    96
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    9. The Gardener and His Tasks (Gen 2:15)

    114
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    10. The Second Commandment (Gen 2:16– 17)

    120
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    11. The First Social Welfare Program (Gen 2:18– 20)

    127
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    12. The First Lady (Gen 2:21– 23)

    137
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    13. Why “Therefore”? (Gen 2:24)

    151
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    14. How Bare Is Naked? (Gen 2:25)

    158
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    15. Clever Conversation and Conspicuous Consumption (Gen 3:1– 6)

    160
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    16. Dressing Up for a Dressing Down (Gen 3:7– 11)

    172
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    17. Interrogation and Negotiation (Gen 3:11– 13)

    179
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    18. Procreation in the Garden (Gen 3:14– 19; 4:1– 2)

    184
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    19. Not a Leg to Stand On: Th e Serpent’s Sentence and the Israelite Culture of “Curse” (Gen 3:14– 15)

    192
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    20. No Bundle of Joy: Hawwa’s Sentence and Israelite Predilections in Legal Reasoning (Gen 3:16)

    206
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    21. Toil and Trouble: Adam’s Sentence and the Rights of Laborers (Gen 3:17– 19)

    219
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    22. Out of the Garden (Gen 3:20– 24)

    227
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  • PART THREE. Then and Now
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    23. The Essential Plot of the Garden Story

    237
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    24. A Literal Translation of a Literary Text

    243
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    25. Allusions to the Garden Story in the Hebrew Bible

    251
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    26. Contra the Common Interpretation

    260
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    27. Beyond the Tower of Babel

    265
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    Appendix: Transliterating Hebrew for Tourists in the Garden

    269
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    Notes

    273
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    Bibliography

    335
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    Index

    357
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