Il paradiso perduto: Genesi 2–3, un racconto a doppia conclusione?

• Authors: Barbara Rzepka

Title variants

EN

Paradise Lost: Genesis 2-3, a Narrative with a Double Conclusion?

• Languages of publication: IT

Abstracts

IT

Repetition in Bible narratives is very often a sign for scholars to identify inthe text the presence either of a doublet or of different sources. One of the examples is the end of the story of the Creation, the lost Paradise (Gen 2–3). This article analyses the conclusion of the story (Gen 3:23-24) trying to answer the question: Is Genesis 2–3, a narrative with a double conclusion? The analysis is divided into four sections, complementary to each other. The first part of the research has a preliminary character, dedicated to the delimitation of the text. The second part compares Gen 3:23 and Gen 3:24, at the level of style and content; the third part concerns the comparison between Gen 3:23-24 and other narratives in the Bible that possess a similar concluding structure. Finally, the forth part is dedicated to the study of the legal meaning of two particular verbs šlh (send away) and grš (drive out) and other legal aspects of the narrative in Gen 3.

EN

Repetition in Bible narratives is very often a sign for scholars to identify in the text the presence either of a doublet or of different sources. One of the examples is the end of the story of the Creation, the lost Paradise (Gen 2–3). This article analyses the conclusion of the story (Gen 3:23-24) trying to answer the question: Is Genesis 2–3, a narrative with a double conclusion? The analysis is divided into four sections, complementary to each other. The first part of the research has a preliminary character, dedicated to the delimitation of the text. The second part compares Gen 3:23 and Gen 3:24, at the level of style and content; the third part concerns the comparison between Gen 3:23-24 and other narratives in the Bible that possess a similar concluding structure. Finally, the forth part is dedicated to the study of the legal meaning of two particular verbs xlv (send away) and vrg (drive out) and other legal aspects of the narrative in Gen 3.

Keywords

IT

Gen 2–3; Gen 3; 23-24; expulsion from Eden; double conclusion; lost Paradise

EN

Gen 2–3; Gen 3; 23-24; expulsion from Eden; double conclusion; lost Paradise

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: The Biblical Annals
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 9-36

Dates

published

2015-11-23

Contributors

author

Barbara Rzepka

• Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydział Teologii, Instytut Nauk Biblijnych.