Dust of the Ground and Breath of Life (Gen 2 : 7) - the Problem of a Dualistic Anthropology in Early Judaism and Christianity.

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Contributors -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Taken from the Soil, Gifted with the Breath of Life: The Anthropology of Gen 2:7 in Context (Noort) -- ‎Theological Anthropology and the Enochic Book of Watchers (1 En. 6-16) (Stuckenbruck) -- ‎Anthropology in the Ancient Greek Versions of Gen 2:7 (van der Meer) -- ‎Anthropology, Pneumatology, and Demonology in Early Judaism: The Two Spirits Treatise (1QS III, 13-IV, 26) and Other Texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls (Popović) -- ‎From Cosmogony to Psychology: Philo's Interpretation of Gen 2:7 in De opificio mundi, Quaestiones et solutiones in Genesin and Legum allegoriae (Wyss) -- ‎On Anthropology and Honor in the Testament of Job (Kugler) -- ‎Christ As Creator: Paul's Eschatological Reading of Gen 2:7 in 1Cor 15:45 (Feldmeier) -- ‎Anthropological Views in Nag Hammadi: The Bipartite and Tripartite Conceptions of Human Being (Roig Lanzillotta) -- ‎Adam, Dust, and the Breath of Life according to the Targumim of Gen 2:7 (Hayward) -- ‎Index of Ancient Sources -- ‎Index of Modern Authors.

This volume addresses the concept of an immortal soul in a mortal body and focuses on early Judaism and Christianity, where the issue of dualistic anthropology is often related to the interpretation of Gen 2:7 and questioned in different ways.

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