Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender

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Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, Valarie H. Ziegler
Indiana University Press, 15 de maig 1999 - 536 pàgines

"The editors have performed a great service in making widely available a documentary history of the interpretation of the Eve and Adam story." —Publishers Weekly

"This fascinating volume examines Genesis 1-3 and the different ways that Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpreters have used these passages to define and enforce gender roles. . . . a 'must' . . . " —Choice

"Wonderful! A marvelous introduction to the ways in which the three major Western religious traditions are both like, and unlike one another." —Ellen Umansky, Fairfield University

No other text has affected women in the western world as much as the story of Eve and Adam. This remarkable anthology surveys more than 2,000 years of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim commentary and debate 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 postbiblical interpretations in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha to the Qur'an, from Thomas Aquinas to medieval Jewish commentaries, from Christian texts to 19th-century antebellum slavery writings, and on to pieces written especially for this volume.

 

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General Introduction
1
CHAPTER ONE Hebrew Bible Accounts
15
CHAPTER TWO Jewish Postbiblical Interpretations 200s BCE200 CE ...
41
CHAPTER THREE Rabbinic Interpretations 200600s CE ...
69
CHAPTER FOUR Early Christian Interpretations 50450 CE ...
108
Muslim Jewish and Christian 6001500 CE
156
CHAPTER SIX Interpretations from the Protestant Reformation 15171700 CE
249
CHAPTER SEVEN Social Applications in the United States 1800s CE
305
The Debates Continue
371
RACE HIERARCHY AND GENESIS 13 AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM
483
INDEX
503

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Sobre l'autor (1999)

KRISTEN E. KVAM teaches at the Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City.
LINDA S. SCHEARING is a professor in the Religious Studies department at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA.
VALARIE H. ZIEGLER is a professor in the department of Religious Studies at DePauw University in Greencastle, IN. She is author of The Advocates of Peace in Antebellum America.

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