"Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It"

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"Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It" is written by Jeremy Cohen and published by Cornell University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1501745670 (ISBN 10) and 9781501745676 (ISBN 13).

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."