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There are few texts as central to the mythology of Jewish
literature as the Garden of Eden and its attendant motifs, yet the
direct citation of this text within the Hebrew Bible is
surprisingly rare. Even more conspicuous is the infrequent
reference to creation, or to the archetypal first humans Adam and
Eve. There have also been few analyses of the impact of Genesis 2-3
beyond the biblical canon, though early Jewish and Christian
interpretations of it are numerous, and often omitted is an
analysis of the expulsion narrative in verses 22-24. In Remembering
Eden, Peter Thacher Lanfer seeks to erase this gap in scholarship.
He evaluates texts that expand and explicitly interpret the
expulsion narrative, as well as translation texts such as the
Septuagint, the Aramaic Targums, and the Syriac Peshitta. According
to Lanfer, these textual additions, omissions, and translational
choices are often a product of ideological and historically rooted
decisions. His goal is to evaluate the genetic, literary, and
ideological character of individual texts divorced from the burden
of divisions between texts that are anachronistic ("biblical" vs.
"non-biblical") or overly broad ("Pseudepigrapha"). This analytical
choice, along with the insights of classic biblical criticism,
yields a novel understanding of the communities receiving and
reinterpreting the expulsion narrative. In addition, in tracing the
impact of the polemic insertion of the expulsion narrative into the
Eden myth, Lanfer shows that the multi-vocality of a text's
interpretations serves to highlight the dialogical elements of the
text in its present composite state.
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