Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and GenderKristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, Valarie H. Ziegler "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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... blessed them , saying , " Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas , and let birds multiply on the earth . " 23And there was evening and there was morning , the fifth day . 24And God said , " Let the earth bring forth ...
... blessing in verse 28. God blessed " them " and then gave " them " a series of commands . What is the referent to " them " ? If " them " refers to ' adam / humankind ( see v . 26 for this collective usage ) , then it could be argued that ...
... blessed and commanded to be fertile and reproduce . Unlike the birds and fish , they are given dominion and authority . While the writer understands that human females participate in this authority because they are human , the writer ...
... blessed them and named them " Humankind " when they were created . " When Adam had lived one hundred thirty years , he became the father of a son in his likeness , according to his image , and named him Seth . " The days of Adam after ...
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Contents
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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 |