The First Family: Innocence, Awareness, Estrangement, and the Nature of Eden

by Bruce Chilton

Overview

The Biblical story of Eden is one of innocence, suffering, estrangement, displacement, self-consciousness, awakening, and separation. But it is also a story of hope, about the gaining wisdom and self-knowledge. It is about the costs of maturation and a reckoning with our own mortality. In THE FIRST FAMILY, author Bruce Chilton presents a vision of a near, knowable Eden, an Eden that may have been damaged but is not lost.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781581772296
Publisher:	Natus Books
Publication date:	02/14/2024
Series:	Natus Books
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	166
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Bruce Chilton is one of the foremost scholars in the world of early Christianity and Judaism. He wrote the first critical translation of and commentary for the Aramaic version of Isaiah (The Isaiah Targum). His other principal publications include: Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography; Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography; Mary Magdalene: A Biography. The first Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament at Yale University, Chilton is currently Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy & Religion at Bard College and Director of the Institute for Advanced Theology.

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE The Yahwists and Their Eden 1 1. Adam First Living Being 9 2. Eve The Fruit of Desire 29 3. Abel New Promise 47 4. Cain The First Murder, the First City 65 5. The Serpent Language Unravels Eden 85 6. Yahweh Conflicted Creator 105 7. Eden The Unbroken Presence 123 EPILOGUE 141 ABOUT BRUCE CHILTON 157