Time and Mortality: Creation Narratives in Ancient Israel and in Mesopotamia
Sasson, Jack M.
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2008
Abstract
"In Hellenistic Palestine, in an environment that gave birth to
rabbinic Judaism and to Christianity, speculations endlessly rehearsed the time, place,
opportunity, and conditions that would allow mortals to grasp what was achieved
momentarily by Adam and Eve. Two millennia later, we remain beguiled by the same
sources that intrigued them."