Eve & 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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| Idioma: | inglês |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[1999]
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| Acesso em linha: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=68657 |
Sumário:
- Hebrew bible accounts
- Jewish postbiblical interpretations (200s BCE-200 CE)
- Rabbinic interpretations (200-600s CE)
- Early Christian interpretations (50-450 CE)
- Medieval readings: Muslim, Jewish, and Christian (600-1500 CE)
- Interpretations from the Protestant Reformation (1517-1700 CE)
- Social applications in the United States (1800s CE)
- Twentieth-Century readings: the debates continue.