Full Description
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.
Contents
PROLOGUE
The Yahwists and Their Eden 11.
AdamFirst Living Being 92.
EveThe Fruit of Desire 293.
AbelNew Promise 474.
CainThe First Murder, the First City 655.
The Serpent Language Unravels Eden 856.
Yahweh Conflicted Creator 1057.
EdenThe Unbroken Presence 123
EPILOGUE 141
ABOUT BRUCE CHILTON 157
