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Title Eve and Adam : Jewish, Christian, and Muslim readings on Genesis and gender / edited by Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, and Valarie H. Ziegler
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 515 pages)
Contents Chapter 1. Hebrew Bible accounts -- Genesis: selections and commentary -- Chapter 2. Jewish postbiblical interpretation (200s BCE-200 CE) -- Apocrypha (Deuterocanon) and Pseudepigrapha -- Jewish philosophers and historians -- Chapter 3. Rabbinic interpretations (200-600s CE) -- Midrash and Talmud -- Targums -- Chapter 4. Early Christian interpretations (50-450 CE) -- New Testament -- Extracanonical sources -- Church fathers -- Chapter 5. Medieval readings: Muslim, Jewish, and Christian (600-1500 CE) -- Islam -- Judaism -- Christianity -- Chapter 6. Interpretations from the Protestant Reformation (1517-1700 CE) -- Five Reformation thinkers -- Chapter 7. Social applications in the United States (1800s CE) -- Antebellum debates on household hierarchies: proslavery and antislavery views -- Women make the case for equality -- New religious movements on gender relations -- Chapter 8. Twentieth-century readings: the debate continues -- Hierarchical interpretations -- Egalitarian interpretations -- Appendix. The preadamite theory and the Christian identity movement: race, hierarchy, and Genesis 1-3 at the turn of the millennium -- Nineteenth-century preadamite approaches -- Genesis and white supremacy in the twentieth century
Summary No other text has affected women in the western world as much as the story of "Eve and Adam". The story has engendered countless commentaries, has been used to argue the 'fallen' nature of humankind or to explain or exploit relations between the sexes, and has played a key role in justifying the ways of God toward man and woman. This remarkable anthology surveys more than 2,000 years of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim commentary on the biblical story that continues to raise fundamental questions about what it means to be a man or to be a woman. The selections range widely from early post biblical interpretations in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha to three commentaries written especially for this volume. The editors have included early rabbinic texts, interpretations from the New Testament, and commentaries from the Church Fathers. There are excerpts from the Quran, from medieval Jewish commentaries, from Thomas Aquinas and other later figures, as well as representative texts of the Protestant Reformation. One section focuses on nineteenth-century America and the antebellum debate on slavery, the struggle for women's equality, and new religious movements such as Shakerism and Christian Science. Twentieth century texts from all three traditions conclude the volume. A special appendix focuses on race and Genesis 1-3 at the turn of the new millennium. The tale told through these texts is a remarkable one of the hold the story of "Eve and Adam" has had on the western imagination. The editors note that though the biblical account has been invoked throughout history to justify all manner of oppression, there is an equally rich tradition of egalitarian interpretation, well-represented in this book. Far from a collection of lifeless, historical documents, these texts are lively representatives of a debate that continues to animate men and women to this day
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Eve (Biblical figure)
Adam (Biblical figure)
SUBJECT Adam (Biblical figure) fast (OCoLC)fst00087719
Eve (Biblical figure) fast (OCoLC)fst00087718
Genesis -- Rezeption. idsbb
Adam -- Eva -- Genesis 1-3 -- Exegese. idszbz
Eva -- Adam -- Genesis 1-3 -- Exegese. idszbz
Bible. Genesis, I-V -- Commentaries
Bible. Genesis, I-V -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History
Bible. Genesis, I-V -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish
Bible. Genesis, I-V -- Islamic interpretations
Bible. Genesis, I-V -- Feminist criticism
Genesis 1-3 -- Adam -- Eva -- Exegese. idszbz
Subject Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
RELIGION -- Biblical Criticism & Interpretation -- General.
Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Feminist criticism.
Islamic interpretations of sacred works.
Schepping.
Genesis (bijbelboek)
Sekseverschillen.
Interreligieuze dialoog.
Frau und Mann -- Bibel.
Bibel -- Frau und Mann.
Exegese -- Judentum -- Genesis 1-3 -- Adam -- Eva.
Judentum -- Exegese -- Genesis 1-3 -- Adam -- Eva.
Exegese -- Islam -- Genesis 1-3 -- Adam -- Eva.
Islam -- Exegese -- Genesis 1-3 -- Adam -- Eva.
littérature juive -- Adam et Eve.
littérature chrétienne -- Adam et Eve.
littérature musulmane -- Adam et Eve.
exégèse -- "Bible. AT. Genèse. 1 -- 5"
féminisme -- "Bible. AT. Genèse. 1 -- 5"
Genre/Form Commentaries.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Kvam, Kristen E., editor.
Schearing, Linda S., editor.
Ziegler, Valarie H., 1954- editor.
ISBN 0253109035
9780253109033
9786612062995
6612062991
1282062999
9781282062993