After Eden ─ Church Fathers And Rabbis on Genesis 3:16-21

Reuling (Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion) compares interpretations of the verses, which spell out the consequences of Adam and Eve's sins, by a few central and near contemporary Jewish and Christian authors. She finds that the Pauline understanding of Christ as the new Adam radically influenced the Christian understanding of the first Adam, which highlighted the universal and lasting consequences of his sin. The rabbis, however, though they also associated mortality with Adam's sin, entertained much less a notion of common human guilt. The study was originally written as her 2004 Ph.D. dissertation for the Catholic Theological University of Utrecht. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Hanneke Reuling recently obtained her Ph.D. from the Catholic Theological University of Utrecht (2004). She is appointed as office manager and curriculum coordinator at the Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion.