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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Marcel J. H. M.PoorthuisAbout Naked Women and Adam’s Body: The Syriac-Christian <i>Cave of Treasures</i> as a Source of Islamic Storytellinghttp://syriaca.org/cbss/PBHL7TSPhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/PBHL7TSPhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/PBHL7TSPPaulGeestMarcel J. H. M.PoorthuisElsRoseSanctifying Texts, Transforming Rituals: Encounters in Liturgical Studies. Essays in Honour of Gerard A.M. RouwhorstLeidenBrill201781-102Brill’s Studies in Catholic Theology 5The motif of the descent of the “sons of God” to the daughters of men was liberated from its hybrid connotations indicating a mixture between the divine and the human, once it was instead interpreted to mean that the sons of Seth had descended towards the daughters of Cain. The influence of this theme in Syriac Christianity upon Islamic authors is worth considering, documenting as it does a direct contact between the two religions. In addition, the related topic of Adam’s body being taken out of Paradise into the Ark constitutes a fruitful theme for interreligious narrative transformations. Especially noteworthy is the designation of Adam’s body as bema, which can be connected to Syriac liturgical usage for the separation between men and women in the church. This may shed new light upon similar regulations in the synagogue.
Poorthuis, Marcel J. H. M. “About Naked Women and Adam’s Body: The Syriac-Christian Cave of Treasures as a Source of Islamic Storytelling.” In Sanctifying Texts, Transforming Rituals: Encounters in Liturgical Studies. Essays in Honour of Gerard A.M. Rouwhorst, edited by Paul Geest, Marcel J. H. M. Poorthuis, and Els Rose, 81–102. Brill’s Studies in Catholic Theology 5. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
Marcel J. H. M. Poorthuis, About Naked Women and Adam’s Body: The Syriac-Christian Cave of Treasures as a Source of Islamic Storytelling,” in Sanctifying Texts, Transforming Rituals: Encounters in Liturgical Studies. Essays in Honour of Gerard A.M. Rouwhorst, ed. Paul Geest, Marcel J. H. M. Poorthuis, and Els Rose, Brill’s Studies in Catholic Theology 5 (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 81–102.AdamCave of TreasuresGen 9GenesisMuslim-Christian relationsOld TestamentSyriac influence [Arabs]VII-XVIII CEX CE