Publisher: Natus Books, Barrytown, NY
Distributor: Independent Publishers Group (312) 337-0747
Pub. date: Jan. 8, 2024
ISBN: 9781581772296
Retail price: $17.95
Dimensions: 5"x7"
No. of pages: 160The First Family:
Innocence, Awareness, Estrangement, and the Nature of Eden
by Bruce Chilton, PhD.
THE BIBLICAL STORY OF EDEN is one of innocence, suffering, estrangement, displacement, self-consciousness, awakening, and separation. But it is also a story of hope, about gaining wisdom, and self-knowledge. It is about the costs of maturation and a reckoning with our own mortality. In The First Family, author Bruce Chilton presents a vision of a near, knowable Eden, an Eden that may have been damaged but is not lost.
Bruce Chilton is one of the foremost scholars in the world of early Christianity and Judaism. He wrote the first critical translation of and commentary for the Aramaic version of Isaiah (The Isaiah Targum), as well as academic studies that analyze Jesus in his Judaic context (A Galilean Rabbi and His Bible; The Temple of Jesus; Pure Kingdom). His other principal publications include: Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography; Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography; Mary Magdalene: A Biography; Resurrection Logic: How Jesus’ First Followers Believed God Raised Him from the Dead; and, most recently, The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession. He has taught in Europe at the universities of Cambridge, Sheffield, and Münster, and in the United States at Yale University (as the first Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament) and Bard College. Currently Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Bard, he directs the Institute of Advanced Theology.