"Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It" : : The Ancient and Medieval Career of a Biblical Text / / Jeremy Cohen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Cohen, Jeremy,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; CHAPTER I. Biblical Foundations --; CHAPTER 2. Defining a Cosmic Frontier: Genesis 1:28 in the Aggadah --; CHAPTER 3. Transformation in the Halakhah --; CHAPTER 4. Medieval Rabbinic Applications: Jurisprudence, Exegesis, and Mysticism --; CHAPTER 5. Christian Biblical Commentary --; CHAPTER 6. The Primordial Blessing and the Law of Nature --; Conclusion: A Look Forward and Back --; Glossary of Names and Terms --; Works Cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501745676; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501745676
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jeremy Cohen.

This innovative, interdisciplinary book reconstructs the career of Genesis 1:28 ("Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it.") in Judaism and Christianity, from antiquity through the Reformation. Jeremy Cohen tracks the text through all the Jewish and Christian sources in which it figures significantly—in law, exegesis, homily, theology, mysticism, philosophy, and even vernacular poetry. In his view, the verse situates man and woman on a cosmic frontier, midway between the angelic and the bestial, charging them with singular responsibilities that bear directly on Jewish and Christian ideas of God's "chosen people."