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THE GREEK LIFE OF ADAM AND EVE - JOHN R LEVISON...

The Greek Life of Adam and Eve is a brooding epic that explores experiences of disease  death 
and hope through a riveting reinvention of the stories of Adam and Eve  Cain and Abel  and
Seth. Now  for the first time  Jack Levison offers the English-speaking world its first
comprehensive commentary on this saga. The introduction offers analyses  sweeping in scope and
rich in detail  for which no comparable discussions exist in any language. Chapter one details
literary character-narrative flow  characters  and reconstructions of literary growth. With
consummate clarity  chapter two brings order to the scholarly chaos surrounding Greek
manuscripts  Greek text forms  versions (Latin  Armenian  Georgian  Slavonic)  and the history
of research. Chapter three investigates provenance: external references to the Greek Life and
evidence for either a Jewish or Christian origin  Levison demonstrates that arguments for
either a Jewish or Christian provenance cannot bear the weight scholars have laid on them. The
commentary is equally comprehensive  with far-reaching discussions of the Greek illuminated by
the foreground of Jewish scripture and the milieu of ancient Greek and Hebrew literature. With
a fresh translation and bibliography.

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