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Adam and Eve in Romans 1.18–25 and the Greek Life of Adam and Eve

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2004

JOHN R. LEVISON
JOHN R. LEVISON
Affiliation:
Seattle Pacific University, 3307 3rd Avenue West, Seattle, WA 98119, USA
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Abstract

This study identifies several dimensions of the Greek Life of Adam and Eve that provide fresh points of entry to Paul's thought in Rom 1.18–25. Principal among these are the suppression of truth, the advent of divine anger, the onset of death, and, most notably, two related exchanges – God's glory for mortality and natural dominion for unnatural subservience to animals. While such features do not specifically characterize Gen 1–3, they belong to a shared conception of the drama of human sin that characterizes and unites both Rom 1 and the Greek Life of Adam and Eve.

Type
Research Article
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New Testament Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 519 - 534
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

An earlier version of this article was presented to members of the Pseudepigrapha and Christian Origins Seminar of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. I am grateful to these colleagues for several provocative discussions, to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for providing generously for my participation in that meeting, to Johannes Tromp for making his critical edition of the Greek Life of Adam and Eve available prior to publication, as well as for rich communiqués over the past few years, and to Priscilla Pope-Levison for candid critique and clear-headed editorial advice.