Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and GenderKristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, Valarie H. Ziegler This anthology surveys more than 2,000 years of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim commentary and debate on the biblical story that continues to raise questions about what it means to be a man or to be a woman. |
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... interpretation of Genesis , a task he had begun and left unfinished about 10 years earlier . His use of " literal " interpretation involved telling what happened rather than offering a " symbolic " or " figurative " interpretation which ...
... interpretation of Genesis , a task he had begun and left unfinished about 10 years earlier . His use of " literal " interpretation involved telling what happened rather than offering a " symbolic " or " figurative " interpretation which ...
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... interpretations continues by setting out selections that represent three genres of interpretation : formal exegetical commentary , folklore , and mystical con- templation . These subsequent Muslim interpretations of the first woman ...
... interpretations continues by setting out selections that represent three genres of interpretation : formal exegetical commentary , folklore , and mystical con- templation . These subsequent Muslim interpretations of the first woman ...
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... Interpretation : ' Free Slaves ' and ' Subordinate Women , ' " in C. H. Felder , edi- tor , Stony the Road We Trod : African American Biblical Interpretation ( Minneapolis : For- tress , 1991 ) , pp . 206-31 . 8. Martin , " The ...
... Interpretation : ' Free Slaves ' and ' Subordinate Women , ' " in C. H. Felder , edi- tor , Stony the Road We Trod : African American Biblical Interpretation ( Minneapolis : For- tress , 1991 ) , pp . 206-31 . 8. Martin , " The ...
Contents
General Introduction I | 1 |
Hebrew Bible Accounts | 15 |
SELECTIONS AND COMMENTARY | 22 |
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