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

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Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, Valarie H. Ziegler
Indiana University Press, 1999 M05 15 - 515 páginas

"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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General Introduction I
1
Hebrew Bible Accounts
15
SELECTIONS AND COMMENTARY
22
Sent from the Garden
31
Adams Descendants
38
APOCRYPHA DEUTEROCANON AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHA
47
Jubilees c mid100S BCE
51
Life of Adam and Eve c late 100s400
58
CHAPTER
249
FIVE REFORMATION THINKERS
261
Martin Luther Lectures on Genesis begun 1535 CE
267
John Calvin Commentaries on the First Book of Moses Called Genesis c 1555 CE
276
John Milton Paradise Lost 1667 CE
288
CHAPTER SEVEN
305
Fred A Ross Slavery Ordained of God 1857 CE
324
Josiah Priest Bible Defence of Slavery 1851 CE
332

JEWISH PHILOSOPHERS AND HISTORIANS
64
The Disobedience
85
Adam and Eve after Eden
96
49
99
Genesis pre600
104
The Gospel According to Thomas c 50150 CE
120
CHURCH FATHERS
128
Ambrose Paradise c 375 CE
136
John Chrysostom Homilies on Genesis c 386 CE
142
Augustine The Literal Meaning of Genesis begun c 401 CE
148
CHAPTER FIVE
156
ISLAM
178
AlTabari Commentary on the Quran c late 800s CE
186
Ibn alArabi The Bezels of Wisdom c 1200S CE
200
Rashi Commentary on the Pentateuch c late 1000S CE
208
Maimonides The Guide for the Perplexed c late 1100S CE
216
The Zohar c late 1200S CE
222
Christine de Pizan Letter of the God of Love 1399 CE
237
WOMEN MAKE THE CASE FOR EQUALITY
340
Elizabeth Cady Stanton editor The Womans Bible 1895 1898 CE
346
NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS ON GENDER RELATIONS
356
John Humphrey Noyes History of American Socialisms 1870 CE
364
CHAPTER EIGHT
371
Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood The Danvers Statement
388
Joseph H Hertz editor The Authorized Daily Prayer Book 1945 CE
401
Sayyid Abu alAla Mawdudi Towards Understanding the Quran 19421972 CE
413
EGALITARIAN INTERPRETATIONS
419
Genesis 23 Reread 1973 CE and Not a Jot
439
Another Look at the Household Codes
456
Riffat Hassan The Issue of WomanMan Equality in the Islamic Tradition
464
Nancy Datan Forbidden Fruits and Sorrow 1986 CE
477
NINETEENTHCENTURY PREADAMITE APPROACHES
485
GENESIS AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN
496
INDEX
503
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