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Eve & Adam : Jewish, Christian, and Muslim readings on Genesis and gender

Kristen E. Kvam (Editor), Linda S. Schearing (Editor), Valarie H. Ziegler (Editor)
A reader on the 2,000-year-old debate about the meaning of the story of Adam and Eve.
Print Book, English, 1999
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1999
History
xviii, 515 pages ; 24 cm
9780253334909, 9780253212719, 025333490X, 0253212715
39747799
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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