Adam’s Dust and Adam’s Glory in the Hodayot and the Letters of Paul

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Adam’s Dust and Adam’s Glory in the Hodayot and the Letters of Paul is written by Nicholas Meyer and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004322922 (ISBN 10) and 9789004322929 (ISBN 13).

In Adam’s Dust and Adam’s Glory, Nicholas A. Meyer challenges the scholarly reconstruction of a traditional theological framework of creation, fall, and restoration in order to comprehend the pessimistic anthropologies of the Hodayot and the letters of Paul. Meyer argues that too little notice has been paid to the fact that this literature problematizes ordinary humanity by way of original humanity—its sexuality, its earthly physicality, its spiritual-moral frailty—and that these texts look not for the restoration of human nature as determined in creation, but rather for its transformation. Setting aside the traditional threefold framework, the author offers an innovative and comprehensive reading of the use of traditions of anthropogony, including the glory of Adam and the image of God, in this literature.