By Gerard P Luttikhuizen
This research at the representations of Paradise within the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 2-3 and Ezekiel 28) additionally bargains with the reception of the biblical debts in early Jewish writings (Enochic texts, the publication of Jubilees, Qumran texts) in Rabbinics and Kabbalah, early mainstream Christianity and in early Christian apocryphal and Gnostic literature. extra chapters are dedicated to perspectives of Paradise within the Christian heart a long time. This quantity concludes with the translation of Paradise in John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost".
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In the second interpretation, the shorter and different reading of the LXX: μετά του χερουβ έ'θηκά20 σε έν άρει άγιω θεοΰ, " With the cherub I positioned you on the holy mountain of God" is (partly) taken as the original text. The L X X has 'att understood as 'et. In this way the king of Tyre is not compared with the cherub, but with a companion who was with the cherub. This companion could be the prototypical human being and these two together in the Garden of God, in gn-cdn, bring the paradise stories of Gen 2 - 3 and Ezek 28 close together.
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42 "Γηων flows through Egypt. . the Greeks call him the Nile". There are two arguments in favour of the Nile as the Gihon of Gen 2:13. First, when the big rivers of antiquity are mentioned, the Nile cannot be missed. Second, the land of Cush means in the great majority of the Old Testament texts the land south of Egypt:43 Nubia and Ethiopia (LXX: Αιθιοπία). But in spite of this, there is a strong, decisive argument against it too. If the Nile was meant, it is strange that the usual name, (h)fr, does not appear here in opposition to the other famous rivers of antiquity, Euphrates and Tigris.
