"Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It": The Ancient and Medieval Career of a Biblical TextWinner of the 1990 National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship "This innovative, interdisciplinary book reconstructs the career of Genesis I:28 in Judaism and Christianity, from antiquity through the Reformation. Jeremy Cohen tracks the text through all the Jewish and Christian sources in which it figures significantly--in law, exegesis, homily, theology, mysticism, philosophy, and even vernacular poetry. 'Brilliant.'"--American Historical Review |
Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
Biblical Foundations | 8 |
Genesis 128 in the Aggadah | 67 |
Copyright | |
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Abraham Adam and Eve Aggadah aggadic ancient animals Augustine Augustine's Babylonian Bible biblical blessing of Gen century Chapter Christian church father cited commandment of procreation Commentary cosmogony covenant created creation creatures CSEL David divine image dominion duty of procreation Eliezer exegesis exegete fertile and increase fill the earth Gemara Genesis Rabbah GenR Gentiles God's ha-Torah halakhic halakhists Hebrew holy homily human sexuality Ibid interpretation of Gen Isaac Israel Israelite Jacob Jean de Meun Jerusalem Jewish Jews Joseph Judaism Kabbalah kabbalistic male mandate marriage medieval Menahem Midrash Mishnah Mishnaic natural law Noah original patristic periyyah u-reviyyah Perush precept prh/rbh Priestly primeval history primordial blessing procreation procreative rabbinic jurist repr responsa Roman rule Scripture Sefer Sefer ha-Bahir sefirah sefirotic sexual reproduction Shammaites She'iltot souls spiritual Studies talmudic Tannaitic TB Yev theologian Theology tion Torah Tosafot Tosefta tradition u-rviyyah verse vols Westermann woman Yohanan Zohar