Preferred Citation
Aryeh Kofsky and Serge Ruzer, Reading the Ascetic Ideal into Genesis 1-3: Hermeneutic Strategies in the Book of Steps Memra 21,” in Breaking the Mind: New Studies in the Syriac “Book of Steps, ed. Kristian S. Heal and Robert A. Kitchen, CUA Studies in Early Christianity (Washington,
DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2014), 262–72.
Subjects
- Adam
- Gen 1
- Gen 2
- Gen 3
- Genesis
- IV CE
- IV-VII CE
- Liber Graduum
- Old Testament
- Paradise
- V CE
- asceticism
- exegesis
- hermeneutics
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Article
Title: Reading the Ascetic Ideal into Genesis 1-3: Hermeneutic Strategies in the <i>Book of Steps</i> Memra 21
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Publication
Title: Breaking the Mind: New Studies in the Syriac “Book of Steps”
Editor: Kristian S. Heal
Editor: Robert A. Kitchen
Place of Publication: Washington, DC
Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
Date of Publication: 2014
Pages: 262-272
Series
Title: CUA Studies in Early Christianity