"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 |
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Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
Biblical Foundations | 8 |
Genesis 128 in the Aggadah | 67 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | "Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It": The Ancient and Medieval Career of a Biblical Text Cornell paperbacks |
| Author | Jeremy Cohen |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press, 1992 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 9 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 0801480531, 9780801480539 |
| Length | 375 pages |
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