Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender (1999 Kvam, Schearing, Ziegler), book

Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender (1999) is a book by Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, and Valarie H. Ziegler.

Abstract

"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."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Contents

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.

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