The Yahwist's account of Creation is the very different vision of Eden, in 2:4-25:
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20 ... but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefor shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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The creation of Eve is Yahweh's triumph, aesthetically superior to th... (查看原文)
... J's irony is that Yahweh has created the serpent to be more fully conscious than man or woman. It is important to be aware the the Yahwist is not Saint John the Divine, for whom the snake is Satan in Revelation. J's serpent is an enigma, a mischief maker without apparent motivation...
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... One can nominate Jacob, archetype of Freud, Kafka, and Einstein, the modern representatives of Jewish genius. Though Christianity rarely saw Jacob as an intimation of Jesus, I would argue that Jesus, rightly called by Father John P. Meier a grand embodiment of Jewish genius, in many respects show affinities with Jacob, who became Israel.
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In the Priestly Writer and the Deuteronomists, the Blessing is divinely simple: "Be fruitful and multiply." In the Yahwist (and in Mann) I read the Blessing as "More life into a time without boundaries." If you have the Blessing, your name will not be scattered but will live on in communal memory. Without remembrance, no Blessing. Ironies abound (in J and in Mann), usurpations are frequent and cunning rather than holiness is the pragmatic qualification for election.
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作者: Harold Bloom 副标题: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible isbn: 0300166834 书名: The Shadow of a Great Rock 页数: 320 定价: USD 28.00 出版社: Yale University Press 装帧: Hardcover 出版年: 2011-9-13
