Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- 1 Introduction: the paradise chronotrope
- PART I PARADISES OF SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS
- PART II CONTEMPORIZING PARADISE IN LATE ANTIQUITY
- 8 Tertullian's law of paradise (Adversus Judaeos 2): reflections on a shared motif in Jewish and Christian literature
- 9 The language of paradise: Hebrew or Syriac? Linguistic speculations and linguistic realities in late antiquity
- 10 The tree of life and the turning sword: Jewish biblical interpretation, symbols, and theological patterns and their Christian counterparts
- 11 Erotic Eden: a rabbinic nostalgia for paradise
- 12 Paradise for pagans? Augustine on Virgil, Cicero, and Plato
- 13 Heaven as a political theme in Augustine's City of God
- 14 Locating paradise
- 15 Epilogue: a heaven on earth
- Select bibliography
- Index of subjects
- Index of authors (cited in text)
- Index of sources
10 - The tree of life and the turning sword: Jewish biblical interpretation, symbols, and theological patterns and their Christian counterparts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 December 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- 1 Introduction: the paradise chronotrope
- PART I PARADISES OF SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM AND CHRISTIAN ORIGINS
- PART II CONTEMPORIZING PARADISE IN LATE ANTIQUITY
- 8 Tertullian's law of paradise (Adversus Judaeos 2): reflections on a shared motif in Jewish and Christian literature
- 9 The language of paradise: Hebrew or Syriac? Linguistic speculations and linguistic realities in late antiquity
- 10 The tree of life and the turning sword: Jewish biblical interpretation, symbols, and theological patterns and their Christian counterparts
- 11 Erotic Eden: a rabbinic nostalgia for paradise
- 12 Paradise for pagans? Augustine on Virgil, Cicero, and Plato
- 13 Heaven as a political theme in Augustine's City of God
- 14 Locating paradise
- 15 Epilogue: a heaven on earth
- Select bibliography
- Index of subjects
- Index of authors (cited in text)
- Index of sources
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Paradise in AntiquityJewish and Christian Views, pp. 138 - 155Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010