Creating gender in the garden : the inconstant partnership of Eve and Adam /

Creating gender in the garden : the inconstant partnership of Eve and Adam /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Deutschmann, Barbara, author.
Imprint:	London ; New York, New York, USA : T & T Clark, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xii, 270 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 729 T & T Clark library of biblical studies Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 729. T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
Subject:	Adam -- (Biblical figure) Eve -- (Biblical figure) Adam -- (Biblical figure) Eve -- (Biblical figure) Bible. -- Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. -- Genesis. Sex role -- Biblical teaching. Sex discrimination -- Biblical teaching. Sex role -- Biblical teaching. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12757158

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Varying Form of Title:	Inconstant partnership of Eve and Adam
ISBN:	0567704564 9780567704566 9780567704573
Notes:	Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Whitley College, 2019 under title: One becomes two : the gender anthropology of the Eden narrative and its reception journey. Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-254) and indexes.
Summary:	"What can explain the persistence of gender inequality throughout history? Do narratives such as the Eden story explain that dissymmetry or contribute to it? This book suggests that the Hebrew Bible began and has sustained a rich conversation about sex and gender throughout its life. A literary study of the Garden of Eden story reveals a focus on the human partnership as integral to the divine creation project. Texts from other Hebrew Bible genres build a picture of robust and flexible partnerships within a patriarchal framework. In popular culture, Eve still carries the stench of guilt while Adam, seemingly unscathed by Eden events, remains a positive symbol of manhood. This book helps explain why they have had such different histories. The book also charts the subversive alternate streams of interpretation of women's writings and rabbinic texts. The story of Adam and Eve demonstrates how conceptions of gender in both ancient and modern worlds reflect larger philosophical schemes. Far from existing as timeless verities, female and male relations are constructed according to cultural imperatives of the day. Understanding the different ways that Adam and Eve have been conceived gives us perspective on our own twenty-first century gender architecture"--
Other form:	ebook version : 9780567704573

Table of Contents:

Questions, assumptions, and viewpoints
The garden as tableau: Genesis 2
The partnership in action: Genesis 3
The partnership of brothers: Genesis 4
Reading for gender: inauguration to contestation
Eden and gender
The couple in context: the Hebrew Bible and gender
Looking back: hierarchy rules
Women and rabbis dissent
Reading forward.