GENESIS 2 BOOKLIST (As of 14/10/15) ~500 sources

Brill Online: Mark Makowiecki, Australia

State Library of NSW 7574592
173 Books to scan
Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics
Law, Sexuality, and Society: The Enforcement of Morals in Classical Athens by David Cohen
The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization
Households: On the Moral Architecture of the Economy by W.J. Booth

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 The Mystical Meaning of the Ceremonies of the Mass: Liturgical Exegesis in the Middle Ages by Claude Barthe
 The Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols by Ellen Frankel
 Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period by E.R. Goodenough (KEY TEXT)
 Concordance (KEY TEXT)
 Why Did Paul Go West? Jewish Historical Narrative and Thought by Doron Mendels
 Record and Revelation by Porteous
 St Irenaeus of Lyons: Against Heresies (Book 3) by Matthew Steenberg
 Hugo Rahner, Greek Myths and Christian Mysteries
 St Augustine, The Fathers of the Church: On Genesis
 Niditch, Chaos to Cosmos: Studies in Biblical Patterns of Creation
 Gage, The Gospel of Genesis: Studies in Protology and Eschatology
 Van Seters, Prologue to History: The Yahwist as Historian in Genesis
 Morales, The Tabernacle Prefigured: Cosmic Mountain Ideology in Genesis and Exodus

BOOKS BORROWED
 The Christian Understanding of History by Eric Rust (IMPORTANT)
 Drama of the Divine Economy: Creator and Creation in Early Christian Theology and Piety by Paul Blowers
 Images of Cosmology in Jewish and Byzantine Art: God’s Blueprint of Creation by Shulamit Laderman
 Towards a Theological Understanding of History by Eric Rust
 Signs of Salvation: The Theme of Creation in John's Gospel by Anthony Moore
 Historical Theology by Jean Danielou (OFFSITE)
 On the Literal Meaning of Genesis by St. Augustine
 History of Paradise: The Garden of Eden in Myth and Tradition by Jean Delumeau
 Beyond Eden : the biblical story of Paradise (Genesis 2-3) and its reception history by Konrad Schmid
 The problem of the Hexateuch, and other essays by Gerhard von Rad
 Space and Time in the Religious Life of the Near East by Nick Wyatt
 The Place of Judas Iscariot in Christology by Anthony Cane
 Myth and Cosmos: Readings in Mythology and Symbolism by John Middleton
 Christ and Us by Jean Danielou
 Images and Symbols by Mircea Eliade
 The Tree of Life: An Archaeological Study by E.O. James
 Salvation History by Eric Rust
 Scripture in the Tradition by Henri de Lubac
BOOKS YET TO BE BORROWED (16)
THE MAJORITY OF THESE BOOKS HAVE SINCE BEEN SCANNED BUT ARE ON THE OLDER COMPUTER. ADDITIONAL BOOKS TO BORROW
ARE ALSO ON THE OLD COMPUTER
 220.63 GOP Typos by Leonhard Goppelt
 221.6 CRO Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History and Religion of Israel by Frank Moore Cross
 221.67 WAL Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible by John
Walton
 222.11092 NAH Nahmanides on Genesis: The Art of Biblical Portraiture by Michelle Levine
 222.110922 BEC Out of Paradise: Adam and Eve and Their Interpreters by Bob Becking
 222.11 WAL The Eden Narrative by Howard Wallace
 230.041 SCO The Ways of Our God: An Approach to Biblical Theology by Charles Scobie (HIGH DEMAND)
 230.14092 TOL The Christocentric Cosmology of St Maximus the Confessor by Torstein Tollefsen
 231 ALE From Eden to the New Jerusalem by Desmond Alexander
 232.963 DRE The Cross in the Christian Tradition: From Paul to Bonaventure by Elizabeth Dreyer
 234.4 JAC New Creation in Paul’s Letters by T. Ryan Jackson
 236 LUT Paradise Interpreted: Representations of Biblical Paradise in Judaism and Christianity by Gerard Luttikhuizen
 261.83628 SIM Creator and Creation: Nature in the Worldview of Ancient Israel by R.A. Simkins
 264 ROS Recalling the Hope of Glory: Biblical Worship from the Garden to the New Creation by Allen P. Ross
 Medieval Exegesis by Henri de Lubac Vol, 1-3 (OFFSITE)
 New Perspectives on Old Testament Prophecy and History: Essays in Honour of Hans M Barstad (IN CATALOGUEING)
 The Authority of the Word: Reflecting on Image and Text in Northern Europe by Celeste Brusati
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BOOKS ELSEWHERE
 Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia by Nina Caputo
 Traces on the Rhodian Shore by Clarence Glacken
 Ramban (Nahmanides): Commentary on the Torah by Charles B. Chavel
 Zakchor: Jewish History and Memory by Y H. Yerushalmi,
 "Nachmanides' Symbolical Reading of History," in Studies in Jewish Mysticism (ed. J. Dan and F Talmage) (USYD)
 The Patristic Understanding of Creation by Downs and Dembski
 Divina Quaternitas: A preliminary study in the method and application of visual exegesis by Anna Esmeijer (National Library)
 ISBN 9023215672 http://www.antiqbook.nl/boox/hoe/0034601.shtml
 In the Beginning: Genesis I-III by Jean Danielou (CIS)
 Symbols of the Cross in the Writings of the Early Syriac Fathers by Cyril Aphrem Karim (IMPORTANT)
 Simple and Bold: Ephrem’s Art of Symbolic Thought by Kees den Biesen
 Brock “The Poet as Theologian”
 The Beauty of God's House: Essays in Honor of Stratford Caldecott by Francesca Aran Murphy
 All Things Made New: The Mysteries of the World in Christ by Stratford Caldecott
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 Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration by John Chryssavgis
Cyprian, Epistle LXXII
 Books by Gosta Lindeskog
 J. Danielou, "Terre et Paradis chez 1es Peres de l'Eglise,"
 The Life in Christ by Nicholas Cabasilas, trans by De Catanzaro
 Remembering Eden: The Reception History of Genesis 3: 22-24 by Peter Thatcher Lanfer
 Catholicism by de Lubac
 Nectar and Illusion: Nature in Byzantine Art and Literature by Henry Maguire
 Theresa Kenney, “Aeternity Shutt in a Span,”
 Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode by Angus Fletcher
 Books by Nina Caputo
 Revelation as History by Pannenberg
 The Omphalos and the Cross: Pagans and Christians in Search of a Divine Centre by Paul Ciholas
 “The Trees of Eden in Medieval Iconography” by O’Reilly
 The Cross and Creation in Liturgy and Art by Christopher Irvine
 Greek Myths and Christian Mystery by Hugo Rahner
 Confessions by St Augustine (recreation in chapter 13)
 The End of Time by Josef Pieper (Philosophy of History)
 Holy Eros by Adam Cooper
 Antichrist by (Italian name)
 Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse by Brett Edward Whalen
 Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity: Ritual, Visual, and Theological Dimensions by Robin Jensen
 The iconography of the Immaculate Conception in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance (for folio pic of tree of life/death) Avondale College of
Higher Education (SYD campus)
 Ratzinger, Jesus of Nazareth (Pt 1) p.95
 The Cloisters Cross: It’s Art and Meaning by Elizabeth C. Parker (downloaded)
 ‘You Shall Surely Not Die’: The Concepts of Sin and Death as Expressed in the Manuscript Art of Northwestern Europe by Jill Bradley
 T. Kronholrn, 'The Trees of Paradise in the Hymns of Ephrem Syrus," Annual of the Swedish Theological Institute 12 (1978)
 Creation and Salvation: A companion on recent theological movements by Conradie
 Christianity and Ecological Theology by E.M Conradie
 A Garden Eastward in Eden by Rachel Elior (ed) (in Hebrew)
 Figuring the Sacred by Paul Ricoeur
 A Companion to the Eucharist in the Middle Ages (esp. p.70), ed by Ian Levy and Gary Macy
 Adam in Myth and History by D.E. Callender (article)
 Ancient Israel (Vol 2) by Roland de Vaux
 Saint Judas, Apostle and Martyr: Passion Theology, Politics, and the Artistic Persona in a French Romanesque Capital by Kathryn Wildgen
 The Mythic Mind by Nicolas Wyatt
 Le Genese, Roland de Vaux (CIS)
 The Kingdom of God as Liturgical Empire: A Theological Commentary on 1-2 Chronicles by Scott Hahn
 The Old Testament Interpretation of History by C.R. North
 Liber Divinorum Operum by Hildegard of Bingen
 The Salvation of the Nations by Jean Danielou
 The Theme of Creation in the Fourth Gospel by Anthony Moore (thesis at Leeds University)
 Ressourcement: A Movement for Renewal in Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology by Gabriel Flynn and Paul Murray
 Epic Traditions of Early Israel: Epic Narrative and the Reconstruction of Early Israelite Institutions by F.M. Cross
 On The Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ (Popular Patristics Series Book 25) by Behr, Wilken, Blowers
 The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate by John Walton
 Creation and Redemption by Georges Florovsky
 Bonaventure: The Soul's Journey into God, the Tree of Life, the Life of St. Francis (The Classics of Western Spirituality) by Ewert Cousins
 Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Gospel of John by Robert Karris
 On The Kabbalah and Its Symbolism by Gershom Scholem
 Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism by Gershom Scholem
 Tree of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North by G. Ronald Murphy
 La Bible Moralisee: Une Oeuvre a Part Entiere. Temporalite, Semiotique Et Creation Au Xiiie Siecle by Babette Hellemans
 The Making of the "Bibles Moralisees" by John Lowden (for medieval understanding of genesis allegory)
 Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words: With Topical Index by W.E. Vine
 “Children in Paradise: Adam and Eve as "Infants" in Irenaeus of Lyons” in Journal of Early Christian Studies by Matthew Steenberg
 Ad Litteram: How Augustine, Calvin and Barth read the “Plain Sense” of Genesis 1-3 by K.E. Greene-McCreight
 Literature on Adam and Eve: Collected Essays by Gary Anderson, Michael Stone, Johannes Tromp
 Earth and Ocean: The Terrestrial World in Early Byzantine Art by Henry Maguire 978-0-271-00477-8 USYD (Rivers as Evangelists)
 Iconography of Christian Art by Gertrud Schiller(State Library
 A. Andreasen, "The role of the Queen Mother in Israelite society", CBQ 45 (1983),
 The Sacred Tree as an Early Christian Literary Symbol: A Phenomenological Study by Stephen Reno (ANU)
 The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages: Production, Reception and Performance in the Middle Ages by Susan Boynton (MTC)
 On the Apostolic Preaching by St. Irenaeus of Lyons (Camden Theological Library)
 On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ by St Maximus the Confessor (MTC, CIS)
 Cosmic Liturgy: The Universe According to Maximus the Confessor by Hans urs von Balthasar (MTC)
 Microcosm and Mediator: The Theological Anthropology of Maximus the Confessor (USYD, CIS)
 Word Biblical Commentary Vol. 1 Gen 1-15 by Gordon Wenham
 The Biblical Qumran Scrolls by Brill
 The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice … by Jon D. Levenson
 A History of the Literature of Adam and Eve by Michael Stone
 Typologie in Mittelalter: zur Übertragbarkeit typologischer Interpretation auf weltliche Dichtung by Hartmut Hoefer
 The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today’s World
 Progress of Redemption: The Story of Salvation from Creation to the New Jerusalem by Willem Van Gemeren
 The Autumn of the Middle Ages by Huizinga
 The Golden Bough by James George Frazer 9780020955702 $10
 The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn ($5 Kindle)
 The New English Translation (NET) Bible Full Notes edition (Amazon e-version $5)
 The New King James Version (NKJV) Study Bible ($30)
 Behind the Image: Understanding the Old Testament in Medieval Art by Judith Kidd
 The Book of Genesis: A Biography by Ronald Hendel
 Spiritual Arborescence: Trees in the Medieval Christian Imagination by Sara Ritchey
 Sensing the Scriptures: Aminadab’s Chariot and the Predicament of Biblical Interpretation by Karlfried Froelich
 Reading the World by Mary Franklin Brown
 Apocalypse as Utopian Expectation (800-1500): The Apocalypse Commentary of Berengaudus of Ferrières and the Relationship between
Exegesis, Liturgy and Iconography by Derk Visser (ANU)
 Surprised by Hope by NT Wright (State Library, CIS, ACU)
 Kingdom Prologue by Meredith Kline (MTC, Alphacrucis)
 Learning to Read Midrash by Simi Peters (MTC)
 The Apocryphal Adam and Eve in Medieval Europe: Vernacular Translations and Adaptions of the Vita Adae et Evae by Brian Murdoch
(USYD, MTC, State Library)
 Adam and Eve in the Protestant Reformation by Kathleen Crowther (USYD, MTC, CTL)
 Creation and the Persistence of Evil by Jon D. Levenson (USYD)
 Purity, Sacrifice and the Temple by Jonathan Klawans (USYD, MTC)
 The Book of Genesis (New International Commentary on the OT) 1-17 by Victor Hamilton pp. 150-170 (USYD, CIS)
 The Tree of Life: Image of the Cosmos by Roger Cook (USYD, ACU-Strathfield)
 [Article] Visual Typology: An Ottonian Example by Christopher Hughes (USYD, UNSW, UTS)
 The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages by Beryl Smalley (State Library, USYD, CIS, ACU-Strathfield)
 “The Verdant Cross” in Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama (UTS, State Library, USYD)
 Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash by Strack & Stemberger 978-0800625245 (USYD, CIS)
 Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels collected from the Fathers by Thomas Aquinas (Campion)
 The Gospel and Epistles of John: A Concise Commentary by Raymond E. Brown (Campion)
 The Gospel According to St. John by Rudolf Schnackenberg (Campion)
 The Gospel According to St John: An Introduction with Commentary and Notes in the Greek Text by C.K. Barrett (Campion)
 Genesis, Creation, and Early Man: The Orthodox Christian Vision by Seraphim Rose
 The Authority of the Old Testament by H.G. Hebert
 The Source of Israelite-Jewish Eschatology by Hugo Gressmann
 Aage Bentzen
 The Anatomy of Misremembering by Cyril O’Regan (For consideration of Protestant thought)
 The Complete English Poems by George Herbert
 De Artibus Opuscula XL: Essays in Honor of Erwin Panofsky (Gerhart Ladner on vegetation symbolism) (State Library, USYD)
 (De Artibus Opuscula) Essay: Harry Bober – In Principio: Creation before Time
 The Temple and the Church’s Mission by G.K. Beale
 Papias and the New Testament by Monte Shanks ($11 on Kindle)
 Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity: Ritual, Visual, and Theological Dimensions by Robin Jensen
 P. Yousif, "Le croix de Jesus et Ie Paradis d'Eden," Parole de l'Orient 6/7 (1975/76): 29-48.

ART HISTORY
 Conrad Rudolph
 A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe (esp Ch.8) by Conrad Rudolph (State Library, USYD)
 Images and Ideas in the Middle Ages by Gerhart Ladner (USYD)
 St Gregory of Nyssa and St Augustine on the Symbolism of the Cross by Gerhart Ladner
 A History of Illuminated Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel ($27 VG Hardcover)
 Rome 1300 by Herbert Kessler (State Library, USYD) ($17)
 Eating Beauty: The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages by Ann Astell (USYD, MTC, CIS)
 The Religious Art of Jacopo Bassano: Painting as Visual Exegesis by Paolo Berdini (State Library, USYD)
 Iconography of Christian Art: The Passion of Jesus Christ by Gertrud Schiller (State Library, USYD, ACU – Strathfield)
 Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image Before the Era of Art by Hans Belting (USYD, CIS, ACU-Strathfield)
 Picturing the Passion in Late Medieval Italy by Anne Derbes (USYD, ACU-Strathfield)
 Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art by Jeffrey Spier (State Library, USYD)
 Understanding Early Christian Art by Robin Margaret Jensen (USYD, CIS, CTL)
 The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture by Colum Hourihane (USYD)
 Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium by Linda Safran (ed.) (USYD)
 Christianity and the Renaissance: Image and Religious Imagination in the Quattrocento by Timothy Verdon, John Henderson (USYD)
 Corpus Mysticum: The Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages by Henri de Lubac (MTC, CIS)
 Trinity and Creation by Grover Zinn (St. Victor poetry) (CIS)
 The Discarded Image by C.S. Lewis (State Library, USYD, CIS)
 The Pictorial Arts of the West 800-1200 by C.R. Dodwell (State Library, USYD)
 Made in God’s Image?: Eve and Adam in the Genesis Mosaics at San Marco, Venice by Penny Howell Jolly (USYD)
 The Psalter of Robert de Lisle in the British Library by Lucy Freeman Sandler (USYD)
 The Golden Legend by Jacobo de Voraigne (USYD, CIS, ACU-Strathfield)
 The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric and the Making of Images 400-1200 by Mary Carruthers (Campion)
 A Companion to the Eucharist in the Middle Ages by Gary Macy (USYD, CIS, CTL)
 Rome Re-Imagined by Louis Hamilton and Stefano Riccioni (Emmaus Bible College E-Book)
 Modern Perspectives in Western Art History by Eugene Kleinbauer (contains Ladner Imago Dei address) (USYD, UTS) Esp pg.243
 St John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology by Jeffrey Hamburger (USYD, MTC)
 Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent by Jeffrey Hamburger (USYD, ACU, Emmaus)
 Antoni Gaudi by Jeremy Roe (Emmaus Bible College)
 Byzantine Art and Archaeology by Ormond Maddock Dalton
 “Between Scripture and Tradition: The Marian Apocrypha of Early Christianity” in The Reception and Interpretation of the Bible in Late
Antiquity
 [Article] Art and Exegesis by Christopher Hughes
 [Essay] Early Christian Interpretation in Image and Word: Canon, Sacred Text, and the Mosaic of Moni Latomou By Laura Nasrallah
 Aspects of Art of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by C.R. Dodwell
 Book and Verse: A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature by James Morey
 Interspaces between Word, Space and Touch by Barbara Baert
 A Heritage of Holy Wood by Barbara Baert
 Holy Matter by Sara Ritchie
 The Liturgical Poetry of Adam of St. Victor
 Adam of Saint-Victor: Sequences by Juliet Mousseau
 San Clemente by Carlo Cecchelli
 Il mosaic absidale di S. Clemente a Roma: “Exemplum” della chiesa riformata by Stefano Riccioni
 A Sense of the Sacred: Roman Catholic Worship in the Middle Ages by James Monti
 Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature Craig A Evans
 La Charrue Symbole de la Croix by Jean Danielou (Recherches de science religieuse, ISSN 0034-1258. - (1954) vol.42, p.193-203)
 Le visage du Christ: Iconographie de la Croix Philippe Péneaud ($16 Ebook, Google Play)
 Les Quatre Vivants (Close link between Art and Theology) by Philippe Peneaud
 L'histoire du salut de l'humanité d'après les premiers chapitres de la Genèse (Salvation History in Genesis) by Andre Feuillet
 J. Danielou, Le symbolisme cosmique de la Croix, La Maison Dieu, 75, 1963.
 Langland’s Plowman and the Recreation of Fourteenth-Century Religious Metaphor in the Yearbook of Langland Studies ($22 BREPOLS)
 Wylcliffite Representations of the Third Estate by Helen Barr (in Lollards and Their Influence in Late Medieval England)
 Images of the Medieval Peasant by Paul Freedman (VERY useful for Christ as tiller in medieval times)
 God Speed the Plough by Andrew McRae
 Djuric, Ateni and the Rivers of Paradise in Byzantine Art (Article)
 Thomas Buser, Early Catacomb Iconography and Apocalypticism
 Thomas H. Ohlgren, Some New Light on the Old English Cædmonian Genesis, 1 (1975)
 Ellen K. Rentz, Representing Devotional Economy: Agricultural and Liturgical Labor in the Luttrell Psalter, 31 (2010)
 Morton W. Bloomfield, Allegory, Myth and Symbol (For Plough, USYD)
 Georgi Vasilev, Heresy and the English Reformation: Bogomil-Cathar Influence on Wycliffe, Langland, Tyndale and Milton (for Plough)
 Edward Wheatley, http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/16036248/selfless-ploughman-christ-piers-conjunction-langlands-
piers-plowman
 The Mithraic Origin and Meanings of the Rotas-Sator Square by Moeller
 ARTICLE Carolingian Crucifixion Iconography: An Elaboration of a Byzantine Theme by Elizabeth Leesti
 ARTICLE To Test or Preserve: The Prohibition of Genesis 2:16-17 in the thought of two second century exegetes by Steenberg
 The Cosmographia of Bernardus Silvestris by Winthrop Wetherbee
 Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century: A Study of Bernard Silvester (State Library, USYD)
 Search Essay by Robert M. Ziomkowski.
 Authority and Imitation: A Study of the Cosmographia of Bernard Silvestris by Mark Kauntze BRILL
 Myths and Ritual in the Ancient Near East by E.O. James (USYD)
 Creation and Cosmology: A Historical and Comparative Inquiry by E.O. James (USYD, Ryde)
 270.1 SKA In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influences on Early Christianity by Oskar Skarsaune (NOT APPARENTLY
HELPFUL)
 226.506 HAM Revelation and Concealment of Christ by Saaed Hamid-Khani (NOT APPARENTLY HELPFUL)
 Klibansky, Raymond, Panofsky Erwin, Saxl Fritz., Saturn and Melancholy. Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art
 Kühnel, Bianca. The End of Time in the Order of Things: Science and Eschatology in Early Medieval Art.
 Rudolph, Conrad. In the Beginning: Theories and images of creation in Northen Europe in the twelfth century. «Art History», 22, 1999, no
1. p. 3 – 55
 Sicard, Paul. Diagrames médiévaux et exégese visuelle le ibellus de formatione arche de Hugues de Saint-Victor. In: Bibliotheca Victorina,
4, Paris-Turnhout: Brepols, 1993.

POSSESS
 The Gothic Image by Emile Male (fully noted)
 Man and the Environment: A Study of St Symeon the New Theologian by Anestis Keselopoulos
 The Orthodox Way by Kallistos Ware
 Myths and Realities by John McKenzie
 God and Temple by R.E. Clements
 Revelation in Christ by Nicholls
 Wisdom in Israel by Gerhard von Rad
 Cox, Ronald, By the Same Word: Creation and Salvation in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity (have e-book)
 Order and History Vol 1 by Eric Voegelin (have e-book)
 Christian Myth and Ritual by E.O. James
 The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade
 Christian Iconography by Andre Grabar
 Art and Eloquence in Byzantium by Henry Maguire
 Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (Genesis 1-11)
 Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (Revelation)
 Commentary on Genesis by U. Cassuto
  Antichrist by Bernard McGinn
 Ephrem the Syrian (The Classics of Western Spirituality)
 Ephrem the Syrian (Hymns on Paradise)
 Creation & Blessing by Allen Ross
 Back to the Sources by Barry Holtz (ed)
 The Great Code by Northrop Frye
 Words with Power by Northrop Frye
 The Genesis of Perfection by Gary Anderson
 The Bible and the Liturgy by Jean Danielou
 The Stripping of the Altars by Eamon Duffy
 City of God by Augustine of Hippo
 Gosta Lindeskog
 Mary Magdalen by Susan Haskins
 Signs and Symbols in Christian Art by George Ferguson
 Early Christian and Byzantine Art by John Beckwith
 The Spirit of Early Christian Thought by Robert Wilken
 On Genesis by Bruce Vawter
 The Apocalypse by Andre Feuillet
 The Image of Christ (p.42)
 The Early Christian and Byzantine World (pp. 22, 25, 137)
 The Illustrated History of Jesus through the Centuries by Jaroslav Pelikan

JSTOR ARTICLES
Catacomb Art by Erwin Goodenough
Les douze Apotres, et le zodiaque, 7 pages, Jean Danielou
Sacred Landscape and the Early Medieval European Cloister: Unity, Paradise and the Cosmic Mountain by Mary Helms
Maximus the Confessor, Gregory of Nyssa, and the Concept of “Perpetual Progress” by Paul Blowers
John 1:14 and the New Temple by John Meagher
Typological Rhyme in a Sequence by Adam of St. Victor by ER Cunnar
The Representation of Christ in the Apses of Early Christian Churches by Spieser
Renaissance, Residues and other Remains: Some Comments on the Arts in the Twelfth Century by Nora Nercessian
The Philosophical Anthropology of Gregory of Nyssa by Gerhart Ladner
The Role of Mary as Co-recapitulator in St Irenaeus of Lyons by Matthew Steenberg (BRILL)(Read on JSTOR)

 Genesis: A Commentary by Gerhard von Rad

 Ireneaus on Creation: The Cosmic Christ and the Saga of Redemption by Matthew Steenberg
 Of God and Man: Theology as Anthropology from Irenaeus to Athanasius by Matthew Steenberg (CIS, Emmaus Bible College)
 Old Testament Theology by von Rad
 The Literary Guide to the Bible by Alter
 Church Fathers from Clement of Rome to Augustine by Benedict XVI
 Myth and Reality in the Old Testament by Childs
 Introduction to the Hebrew Bible by Collins
 The First Christian Theologians by Evans
 The Intertextual Reception of Genesis 1-3 in Irenaeus of Lyons by Stephen Presley
 Christology and Cosmology by J. Rebecca Lyman (no good)
 Genesis and Christian Theology by Nathan MacDonald (ed.)
 Christ, Creation and the Vision of God: Augustine’s Transformation of Early Christian Theophany Interpretation by Kari Kloos (no good)
 There’s such Divinity doth Hedge a King: Selected Essays of Nicolas Wyatt (already have essay)
 The Eden Narrative: A Literary and Religio-historical Study of Genesis 2-3 by Tryggve Mettinger
 Echoes of Eden: Genesis 2-3 and Symbolism of the Eden Garden in Biblical Hebrew Literature by T. Stordalen
 Theology of History in St. Bonaventure by Joseph Ratzinger
 “When the Beginning is the End: The Place of Genesis in the Commentaries of Philo” by Gregory E. Stirling in The Book of Genesis:
Composition, Reception, Interpretation by Craig Evans, Joel Lohr, David Petersen (eds)(BrillOnline) (USYD, MTC, CIS, CTL)
 Nouvelle Theologie and Sacramental Ontology: A Return to Mystery by Hans Boersma
 Mary: The Church at the Source by Joseph Ratzinger
 Beginnings by Hauret
 Sanctuary Symbolism in the Garden of Eden Story by Wenham
 Jerome Biblical Commentary
 Myths and Realities by McKenzie
 The Literary Characteristics of Genesis 2-3 by McKenzie
 The Thought of Pope Benedict by Aidan Nichols
 Myths in the Old Testament by Otzen
 Creation and Covenant by Plastaras
 The Spirit of the Liturgy by Joseph Ratzinger
 Looking Again at the Question of the Liturgy by Alcuin Reid
 From Creation to New Creation: Old Testament Perspectives by Bernhard Anderson
 God and the World in the Old Testament by Terence Fretheim
 Covenant and Creation by William Dumbrell
 The End of the Beginning: Revelation 21-22 and the Old Testament. By William Dumbrell
 From Eden to Golgotha by Moberly
 God, Cosmos and Humankind: The World of Early Christian Symbolism by Gerhart Ladner
 A Walk in the Garden: Biblical, Iconographical and Literary Images of Eden by Paul Morris IMPORTANT)
 Myths of Power. A Study of Royal Myth and Ideology…(Ugaritisch-Biblische Literatur 13, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1996)
 “In Paradise: Adam from Creation to Resurrection” in The Book of Genesis in Late Antiquity by Emmanouela Grypeou
 Sanctified Vision: An Introduction to Early Christian Interpretation of the Bible by John O’Keefe
 The Mythology of Eden by Arthur George
 Salvation in History by Oscar Cullman
 The Mind’s Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Middle Ages by Jeffrey Hamburger
 Myth and Mystery by Jean Danielou
 Symbols of Church and Kingdom: A Study in Early Syriac Tradition by Robert Murray (IMPORTANT. REALLY!)
 Nature and Man in Biblical Thought by E.C. Rust
 Eternity in time : Christopher Dawson and the Catholic idea of history by Stratford Caldecott
 Exegesis and Spiritual Pedagogy in Maximus the Confessor: An Investigation of the Quaestiones Ad Thalassium by Paul Blowers
 The Creation of History in Ancient Israel by Marc Zvi Brettler
 The Symbolism of the Cross by Rene Guenon
 The Mystery of the Temple by Yves Congar
 Beginnings: Ancient Christian Readings of the Biblical Creation Narratives by Peter Bouteneff
 Bede: On Genesis
 The Two and the One by Mircea Eliade
 Salvation History: A Biblical Interpretation by Eric Rust
 The King and the Tree of Life in Ancient Near Eastern Religion by Geo Widengren IMPORTANT Pamphlet (PHOTOS ON PHONE)
 The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of St. Ephrem by Sebastian Brock (POSSESS)
 Christ and Time by Oscar Cullman
 The Medieval Bible by Frans van Liere
 The Good and Evil Serpent: How a Universal Symbol became Christianized by James Charlesworth
 Paradise in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Views by Marcus Bockmeuhle and Guy Strousma ( “The Messiah in the Garden” by Joachim
Schaper)
 Letter and Spirit article by Reno
 Israel’s Concept of the Beginning by Henricus Renckens (Campion)
 The Beauty of the Cross: The Passion … in Theology and the Arts from the Catacombs to the Eve of the Renaissance by Richard Viladesau
 Handbook of Patristic Exegesis by BRILL
 From Shadows to Reality: Studies in the Biblical Typology of the Fathers by Jean Danielou
 Genesis 1-11: A Continental Commentary by Klaus Westermann (Campion)
 Signifying Animals: Human Meaning in the Natural World by Roy Willis
 Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: Genesis 1-11 by Andrew Louth
 In the Beginning by Joseph Ratzinger (Campion)
 Essays of Biblical Interpretation by Paul Ricoeur (Campion)
 The Symbolism of Evil by Paul Ricoeur (Campion)
 The Cross in Ritual, Architecture and Art by Geo
 Connections by Glen Carpenter
 The Carolingians in Central Europe, their History, Arts and Architecture by Herbert Schutz (Brill)
 Biblical Illustrator by Joseph Excell (ONLINE @ http://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tbi/)
 The Old Testament in the Light of Anthropology by E.O. James (PDF)
 The Ancient Gods: The History and Diffusion of Religion…

ART HISTORY
 The Cross in Tradition, History, and Art by William Wood Seymour 978-1313533928 (PDF)
 The Word in the Image: an Epiconographic Analysis of Reformed Mosaics in Rome by Stefano Riccioni (PDF)
 The Image of Christ by Gabriele Finaldi
 The Age of the Cathedrals: Art and Society 980-1420 by
 Symbols as Power by Mary Stroll (Chapter 9 snippets taken)
See p.140 of Paradise in Antiquity (tree of life vs tree of death). Consider the Eucharist as bringing life or death. Extrapolate how
intention/disposition is a defining element of the goodness or badness of something.

READING ORDER

1) Drama of the Divine Economy: Creator and Creation in Early Christian Theology and Piety by Paul Blowers
2) Beginnings: Ancient Christian Readings of the Biblical Creation Narratives by Peter Bouteneff
3) The Patristic Understanding of Creation by Downs and Dembski

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