Adam as Israel :
Postell, Seth D.,
Adam as Israel : Genesis 1-3 as the introduction to the Torah and Tanakh / Seth D. Postell. - 1 online resource (xii, 180 pages)
Originally published 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and indexes.
Introduction -- History of interpretation -- Recent studies -- Methodology -- A text-centered analysis of Genesis 1-3, Part 1 -- A text-centered analysis of Genesis 1-3, Part 2 -- Genesis 1-3: An introduction to the Tanakh?
Postell contends that the opening chapters of the Bible, when interpreted as a strategic literary introduction to the Torah and to the Tanakh, intentionally foreshadows Israel's failure to keep the Sinai Covenant and their exile from the Promised Land, in order to point the reader to a future work of God. Postell highlights numerous intentional links between the story of Adam and the story of Israel and, in the process, explains numerous otherwise perplexing features of the Eden story.
9780227900239 0227900235
22573/ctt1cg7r00 JSTOR
Adam (Biblical figure)
Adam, (Biblical figure)
Bible.--Genesis, I-III--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Intertextuality in the Bible.
Jews--History.
RELIGION--Biblical Studies--Old Testament.
RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
Electronic books.
BS1235.52 / .P67 2012eb
222.1106
Adam as Israel : Genesis 1-3 as the introduction to the Torah and Tanakh / Seth D. Postell. - 1 online resource (xii, 180 pages)
Originally published 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-180) and indexes.
Introduction -- History of interpretation -- Recent studies -- Methodology -- A text-centered analysis of Genesis 1-3, Part 1 -- A text-centered analysis of Genesis 1-3, Part 2 -- Genesis 1-3: An introduction to the Tanakh?
Postell contends that the opening chapters of the Bible, when interpreted as a strategic literary introduction to the Torah and to the Tanakh, intentionally foreshadows Israel's failure to keep the Sinai Covenant and their exile from the Promised Land, in order to point the reader to a future work of God. Postell highlights numerous intentional links between the story of Adam and the story of Israel and, in the process, explains numerous otherwise perplexing features of the Eden story.
9780227900239 0227900235
22573/ctt1cg7r00 JSTOR
Adam (Biblical figure)
Adam, (Biblical figure)
Bible.--Genesis, I-III--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Intertextuality in the Bible.
Jews--History.
RELIGION--Biblical Studies--Old Testament.
RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
Electronic books.
BS1235.52 / .P67 2012eb
222.1106
