About Naked Women and Adamâs Body: The Syriac-Christian Cave of Treasures as a Source of Islamic Storytelling

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The motif of the descent of the âsons of Godâ to the daughters of men was liberated from its hybrid connotations indicating a mixture between the divine and the human, once it was instead interpreted to mean that the sons of Seth had descended towards the daughters of Cain. The influence of this theme in Syriac Christianity upon Islamic authors is worth considering, documenting as it does a direct contact between the two religions. In addition, the related topic of Adamâs book-body being taken out of Paradise into the Ark constitutes a fruitful theme for interreligious narrative transformations. Especially noteworthy is the designation of Adamâs body as bema, which can be connected to Syriac liturgical usage for the separation between men and women in the church. This may shed new light upon similar regulations in the synagogue.â©

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Sanctifying Texts, Transforming Rituals

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