Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1: Early Christian Explorations
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent in the Acts of Andrew
Imperial Propaganda in Paradise? Christ as Eagle in the Apocryphon of John
A Fitting Portrait of God: Origen’s Interpretations of the “Garments of Skins” (Gen 3:21)
Part 2: Zoharic, Kabbalistic, and Alchemical Speculations
Bifurcating the Androgyne and Engendering Sin: A Zoharic Reading of Gen 1–3
The Genesis of Christian Kabbalah: Early Modern Speculations on the Work of Creation
The Mystery of Mysterium Magnum: Paracelsus’s Alchemical Interpretation of Creation in Philosophia ad Atheniensis and Its Early Modern Commentators
Part 3: From Modern to Post-Postmodern (Re)Visions
Beyond Postmodernism? Esoteric Interpretations of Gen 1–3 by E. Swedenborg, R. Steiner, and S. D. Fohr
Restoring a Broken Creation during Times of Apocalypse: An Essay on the Analogical Symbolism of Fall and Integrity in the Metaphysics of Béla Hamvas (1897–1968)
The Bible and Africana Esotericism: Toward an Architectonic for Interdisciplinary Study
Responses
Strategies of Esoteric Exegesis
Esotericism and Biblical Interpretation
Contributors
Index of Sources
Index of Authors