The Sources of the Doctrines of the Fall and Original Sin

This 1903 book is a historical study of the sources and development of the doctrines of the Fall and Original Sin.

F. R. Tennant (Author)

9780521236331, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 March 2012

380 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.48 kg

First published in 1903, this book is a historical study of the sources and development of the doctrines of the Fall and Original Sin. It was written as the companion volume to The Origin and Propagation of Sin, in which the author supplied a critical analysis of the topic. Dealing with the sources of the Hebrew Fall-story and the propagation, from this narrative, of Jewish and Christian theories relating to human sinfulness, it gathers together a broad array of literature for use by the student of theology. The text is consummately edited and contains exhaustive notes, together with a large index of names and religious passages. It will be of value to anyone with an interest in religious history or theology.

1. The Fall-story and its exegesis
2. The ethnological origin and relations of the Fall story
3. The psychological origin of the Fall-story: its relation to history, allegory and myth
4. The preparation in the Old Testament for a doctrine of the fall and Original Sin
5. The teaching of Ecclesiasticus on sin and the Fall
6. The preparation for the doctrine of the Fall in Alexandrian Judaism
7. The Fall and Original Sin in Rabbinical literature
8. The Fall and Original Sin in Jewish pseudopigraphic literature
9. The Fall and Original Sin in Jewish pseudopigraphic literature (continued)
10. The growth of the doctrine of the Fall, and of its elements, Jewish literature as a whole
11. S. Paul's doctrine of the Fall
12. The doctrines of the Fall and Original Sin in the fathers before Augustine
13. The doctrines of the Fall and Original Sin in the fathers before Augustine (continued)
Additions and corrections
Index of passages
Index of authors
Index of subjects.

Subject Areas: Biblical studies & exegesis [HRCG]