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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... EQUALITY 340 Sarah Grimké , Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman ( 1838 CE ) 332 333 Elizabeth Cady Stanton , editor , The Woman's Bible ( 1895 , 1898 CE ) 340 346 Compendium ( 1867 CE ) Frederick W. Evans ...
... Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman ( Boston : Isaac Knapp , 1838 ) . " Comments on Genesis " and " Comments on Timothy , " from The Woman's Bible , edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( Salem , N.H .: Ayer Company Pub ...
... Equality in the Islamic Tradi- tion , " from Women's and Men's Liberation , edited by L. Grob , R. Hassan , and H. Gordon ( Westport , Conn .: Greenwood Press , 1991 ) . The reprinting of this abridgement by permission of Greenwood ...
... equality . The more we learned , the more we realized that Genesis 1-3 has for centuries been a pivotal text for defining the nature of maleness and femaleness . In this book , we examine Genesis 1-3 and the ways that interpreters have ...
... equality be- tween men and women ? Does the creation of man before woman in the second account imply man's superiority to woman , or does woman's later creation in- dicate that God saved the best for last ? What does it mean to say in ...
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 |