The Lost World of Adam and Eve (34 page)

Targum Neofiti
—The Targums are expansive Aramaic translations/paraphrases of biblical texts. This Targum, containing almost the entire Pentateuch, is preserved in a sixteenth-century copy of what is thought to originate in the first several centuries
A.D.

Further Reading

Books

Alexander, Denis.
Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose?
Oxford: Monarch, 2008.

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Language of Genetics: A Primer.
Conshohocken, PA: Templeton, 2011.

Anderson, Gary A.
The Genesis of Perfection: Adam and Eve in Jewish and Christian Interpretation.
Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2001.

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Sin: A History.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.

Barrett, Matthew, and Ardel B. Caneday, eds.
Four Views on the Historical Adam.
Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013.

Becking, Bob, and Susan Hennecke.
Out of Paradise: Eve and Adam and Their Interpreters.
Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2010.

Biddle, Mark E.
Missing the Mark: Sin and Its Consequences in Biblical Theology.
Nashville: Abingdon, 2005.

Boda, Mark J.
A Severe Mercy: Sin and Its Remedy in the Old Testament.
Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2009.

Bouteneff, Peter C.
Beginnings: Ancient Christian Readings of the Biblical Creation Narratives.
Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008.

Callender, Dexter E., Jr.
Adam in Myth and History: Ancient Israelite Perspectives on the Primal Human.
Harvard Semitic Studies 48. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2000.

Charlesworth, James H.
The Good and Evil Serpent: How a Universal Symbol Became Christianized.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.

Collins, C. John.
Did Adam and Eve Really Exist? Who They Were and Why You Should Care.
Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2011.

Collins, Francis S.
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.
New York: Free Press, 2007.

Crowther, Kathleen M.
Adam and Eve in the Protestant Reformation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Enns, Peter.
The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say About Human Origins.
Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2012.

Falk, Darrel R.
Coming to Peace with Science: Bridging the Worlds Between Faith and Biology
. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004.

Finlay, Graeme.
Human Evolution: Genes, Genealogies and Phylogenies.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Fowler, Thomas B., and Daniel Kuebler.
The Evolution Controversy: A Survey of Competing Theories.
Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007.

Giovino, Mariana.
The Assyrian Sacred Tree: A History of Interpretations.
Orbis biblicus et orientalis 230. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007.

Haarsma, Deborah B., and Loren D. Haarsma.
Origins: Christian Perspectives on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design.
Grand Rapids: Faith Alive Christian Resources, 2011.

Harris, Mark.
The Nature of Creation: Examining the Bible and Science.
Durham, NC: Acumen, 2013.

Izre’el, Shlomo.
Adapa and the South Wind: Language Has the Power of Life and Death.
Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2001.

Joines, Karen.
Serpent Symbolism in the Old Testament: A Linguistic, Archaeological and Literary Study.
Haddonfield, NJ: Haddonfield House, 1974.

Mettinger, Tryggve N. D.
The Eden Narrative: A Literary and Religio-historical Study of Genesis 2–3.
Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2007.

Meyers, Carol L.
The Tabernacle Menorah: A Synthetic Study of a Symbol from the Biblical Cult.
American Schools of Oriental Research Dissertations 2. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1976.

Osborn, Ronald E.
Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering
. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014.

Plantinga, Cornelius.
Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.

Provan, Iain.
Seriously Dangerous Religion
. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2014.

Rana, Fazale, and Hugh Ross.
Who Was Adam?: A Creation Model Approach to the Origin of Man.
Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2005.

Stordalen, Terje.
Echoes of Eden: Genesis 2–3 and Symbolism of the Eden Garden in Biblical Hebrew Literature.
Leuven: Peeters, 2000.

Walton, John H.
Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible.
Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006.

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Genesis.
NIV
Application Commentary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001.

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Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology.
Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011.

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The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate.
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2009.

Williams, Patricia A.
Doing Without Adam and Eve: Sociobiology and Original Sin.
Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001.

Zevit, Ziony.
What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013.

Articles

Averbeck, Richard E. “Ancient Near Eastern Mythography as It Relates to Historiography in the Hebrew Bible: Genesis 3 and the Cosmic Battle.” In
The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies and Assumptions,
edited by James K. Hoffmeier and Alan R. Millard, pp. 328-56. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.

Batto, Bernard F. “Paradise Reexamined.” In
In the Beginning: Essays on Creation Motifs in the Ancient Near East and the Bible,
edited by Bernard F. Batto, pp. 54-85. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013. Originally published in
The Biblical Canon in Comparative Perspective,
edited by K. Lawson Younger Jr., William W. Hallo and Bernard F. Batto, Scripture in Context 4 (Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1991), pp. 33-66.

Bloch-Smith, Elizabeth. “Solomon’s Temple: The Politics of Ritual Space.” In
Sacred Time, Sacred Place: Archaeology and the Religion of Israel,
edited by Barry M. Gittlen, pp. 83-94. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2002.

Feinman, Peter. “Where Is Eden? An Analysis of Some of the Mesopotamian Motifs in Primeval J.” In
Creation and Chaos: A Reconsideration of Hermann Gunkel’s
Chaoskampf
Hypothesis,
edited by JoAnn Scurlock and Richard H. Beal, pp. 172-89. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013.

Gleason, Kathryn L. “Gardens.” In
Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East,
edited by Eric Meyers, 2:383. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Hurowitz, Victor. “Yhwh’s Exalted House—Aspects of the Design and Symbolism of Solomon’s Temple.” In
Temple and Worship in Biblical Israel: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar,
edited by John Day, pp. 63-110. New York: Continuum, 2005.

Parpola, Simo. “The Assyrian Tree of Life: Tracing the Origins of Jewish Monotheism and Greek Philosophy.”
Journal of Near Eastern Studies
52 (1993): 161-208.

Stager, Lawrence E. “Jerusalem as Eden.”
Biblical Archaeology Review
26, no. 3 (2000): 38-43.

Tuell, Steven S. “The Rivers of Paradise: Ezekiel 47.1-12 and Genesis 2.10-14.” In
God Who Creates: Essays in Honor of W. Sibley Towner,
edited by William P. Brown and S. Dean McBride, pp. 171-89. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.

Venema, Dennis R. “Genesis and the Genome: Genomics Evidence for Human-Ape Common Ancestry and Ancestral Hominid Population Sizes.”
Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith
62 (2010): 166-78.

Weinfeld, Moshe. “Gen. 7:11, 8:1-2 Against the Background of Ancient Near Eastern Tradition.”
Die Welt des Orients
9 (1978): 242-48.

Wenham, Gordon J. “Sanctuary Symbolism in the Garden of Eden Story.” In
“I Studied Inscriptions from Before the Flood”: Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1–11,
edited by Richard S. Hess and David Toshio Tsumura, pp. 399-404. Sources for Biblical and Theological Study 4. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1994. Reprinted from
Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division A: The Period of the Bible
(Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1986), pp. 19-25.

Wyatt, Nicolas. “The Mythic Mind.” In
The Mythic Mind: Essays on Cosmology and Religion in Ugaritic and Old Testament Literature,
pp. 151-88. London: Equinox, 2005.

Many articles on these issues can be found on the website
www.biologos.org
.

Subject Index

(Page numbers refer to print edition.) 

2 Baruch
, 171, 234

4 Ezra
, 143, 171

4QAmran, 97, 98

11QMelchizedek, 97

Abraham (Abram), 65, 79, 97, 98, 99, 100, 114, 164, 165, 166, 172, 173, 176, 193, 216, 227

accommodation, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 185, 201, 202

accountability, 12, 140, 154, 155, 159, 203

ʾ
ādām
, 58-62, 217

Adapa, 120, 121, 122, 123, 129, 229, 245

age of the earth, 51-52, 208

Akkadian, 78, 82, 83, 84, 87, 88, 121, 220, 226, 229

alienation, 141, 142, 147, 148

altruism, 179

Amun, 149

antediluvian sages, 120

antidote, 74, 159