GENERAL INDEX
| Abraham: call of as spiritual quest, 94; and offering of Isaac, 232–238; walking with God, 50 | |
| accommodation of Scripture to human intellects, 161–162 | |
| accommodation of Scripture to science: ended in nineteenth century, 182, 195; seen as unnecessary, 175–176 | |
| Adam: curse on, 201–202; Kafa’s Josef K as, 221; naming of animals, 257n25; twofold creation of, in Philo, 92–93 | |
| Adam, glory of: in apocalypticism, 70–75, 105; becomes Christ’s glory in new Testament, 76–77; and Desert Fathers, 104 | |
| Adam, Last, 75–79 | |
| Adam and Eve, 39–44; Luther’s criticism of Platonic interpretation, 122; in nineteenth century biblical scholarship, 184–185. See also Eve | |
| African peoples, justification for enslavement of, 197–204 | |
| “afterlife” of a text as transformation, 4 | |
| Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants (Luther), 127–128 | |
| Alan of Lille, 115 | |
| allegorical interpretation: Augustine on, 111–112; Luther’s criticism of, 123–124; by Paul, 96–97; in Philo, 55–56, 91–92; Rabelais’s criticism of, 134–135. See also figural interpretations | |
| Allegorical Interpretation (Philo), 55–56 | |
| ambiguity in J, 23, 41, 43 | |
| angels in Qumran community, 71–72 | |
| antiquity of the earth and chronology of Genesis, 179 | |
| apocalyptic communities. See Essenes (Qumran community) | |
| apocalyptic dualism, 79–82. See also dual reality | |
| apocalyptic expectations as anachronism, 4 |
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Book title: The Book of Genesis: A Biography.
Contributors: Ronald Hendel - Author.
Publisher: Princeton University Press.
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ.
Publication year: 2013.
Page number: 271.
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