TY  - MANSCPT
AU  - Postell,Seth D.
TI  - Adam as Israel: Genesis 1-3 as the introduction to the Torah and Tanakh 
SN  - 9780227680193 (pbk.)
AV  - BS1235.52 .P67 2011
U1  - 222/.1106 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Eugene, Or.
PB  - Pickwick Publications
KW  - Adam
KW  - Bible
KW  - Genesis, I-III
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Intertextuality in the Bible
KW  - Jews
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-180) and index
N2  - In this text-centered interpretation of Genesis 1-3, Seth Postell contends that the opening chapters of the Bible, when interpreted as a strategic literary introduction to the Torah and the Tanakh, intentionally foreshadow Israel's failure to keep the Sinai Covenant and their exile from the Promised Land, in order to point the reader to a future work of God, whereby a king will come in "the last days" to fulfill Adam's original mandate to conquer the land (Gen 1:28). Thus Genesis 1-3, the Torah, and the Hebrew Bible as a whole have an eschatological trajectory. Postell highlights numerous intentional links between the y of Adam and the story of Israel and, in the process, explains numerous otherwise perplexing features of the Eden story
ER  -