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Eve and Adam : Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender /

No other text has affected women in the western world as much as the story of "Eve and Adam". The story has engendered countless commentaries, has been used to argue the 'fallen' nature of humankind or to explain or exploit relations between the sexes, and has played a key role i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ziegler, Valarie H., 1954- (Editor ), Schearing, Linda S. (Editor ), Kvam, Kristen E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1999].
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.