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Adam’s robe of glory (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Descent of Ištar
04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry
04.01 Myths
04.01.03 Descent of Ištar
Garments (1)
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.08 Symbolism of jewelry and dress
02.08.03 Garments (1)
Garments = virtues
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.03 Assyrian substratum features in early Syriac Christianity
12.03.03.10 Imagery and symbolism
12.03.03.10.06 Garments = virtues
Loss of virtues/garments
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.02 Cult of Ištar
03.02.01 Doctrine of salvation
03.02.01.03 Loss of virtues/garments
Original sin
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.01 Cosmogonic and cosmological ideas
01.01.08 Creation of physical world
01.01.08.03 Original sin
Spiritual death = nakedness
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.02 Cult of Ištar
03.02.01 Doctrine of salvation
03.02.01.04 Spiritual death = nakedness

Keywords
Adam
Eve
garments

Period
4th century CE
13th century CE
Byzantine Empire

Channel
Byzantine philosophers and scholars
Christian-Syriac philosophers and scholars
Christian-Syriac poets

Text
Descriptions of Adam and Eve’s original robe of glory and the loss of it at the Fall.

Ephrem Syrus, Commentary on Genesis 2.14:
Because of that glory with which they were wrapped they felt no shame; but when this was taken away from them after the transgression of the commandment, they felt shame because they had been stripped.

Ephrem Syrus, Hymns on Faith 83.2:
You (= the Pearl) are like Eve, who though naked was still clothed (in glory). Cursed is he who deceived and left her stripped. The serpent cannot strip off your glory; in Eden shall women be clothed in light, resembling you.

Solomon of Basra, Book of the Bee 16:
Adam and Eve were stripped of the fair glory and the glorious light of purity with which they had been clothed.

Sources (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Ephrem Syrus, Commentary on Genesis 2.14
Ephrem Syrus, Hymns on Faith 83.2
Solomon of Basra, Book of the Bee 16

Bibliography

Brock 1992, XI 23

Brock, Sebastian. Studies in Syriac Christianity, History, Literature and Theology. London: Variorum Reprints 1992.

Amar Annus

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