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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... Wife , Not Ten ! 205 Prince Sammael and the Serpent 205 Adam : The Cause of Eve's Disobedience 206 Sammael and Eve Punished 206 The Children of Eve and Sammael 207 The Children of Adam and Lilith 207 The Children of Adam and Eve 207 ...
... wife lights the Sabbath candles as a task enjoined on her as an antidote to the " curse of Eve " ( Gen. R. 17.8 ) . The laws governing the relationship between husbands and wives are likewise designed to overcome the same curse ( Gen ...
... wife , and they become one flesh . 25And the man and his wife were both naked , and were not ashamed . Commentary : Genesis 2 : 4b - 25 27then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground : in the Hebrew there is a word play ...
... wife Eve " ) then hierarchy can be seen as perversion of creation's original order.26 It should be mentioned that not all scholars who find " naming " in 2:23 find " dominance . " For them , nam- ing simply indicates a discernment of ...
... wife were both naked , and were not ashamed : there is a word play in the Hebrew between the terms ' arummim ( " naked , " NRSV ) in 2:25 and ' arum ( " crafty , " NRSV ) in 3 : 1 . For a continuation of the themes of nakedness see ...
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 |