"Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It": The Ancient and Medieval Career of a Biblical Text

This innovative, interdisciplinary book reconstructs the career of Genesis 1:28 ("Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it...") in Judaism and Christianity, from antiquity through the Reformation. Jeremy Cohen tracks the text through all the Jewish and Christian sources in whi...

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Main Author: Cohen, Jeremy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2019]
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Links:https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745676
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745676
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745676
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745676
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745676
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745676
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745676
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745676
Summary:This innovative, interdisciplinary book reconstructs the career of Genesis 1:28 ("Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it...") 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. In his view, the verse situates man and woman on a cosmic frontier, midway between the angelic and the bestial, charging them with singular responsibilities that bear directly on Jewish and Christian ideas of God's "chosen people."
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource (368 pages)
ISBN:9781501745676
DOI:10.7591/9781501745676