Eve & Adam: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender by Kristen E. Kvam, Linda S. Schearing, Valarie H. Ziegler
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Overview: How do sacred texts define who we are and how we relate to one another – as women and as men? This remarkable anthology surveys more than two millennia of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim commentary on the biblical story that continues to raise fundamental questions about men, women, and society.
There are almost one hundred selections in this book, and they range widely, from early post-biblical interpretations in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha to three commentaries written especially for this volume. The editors have included early rabbinic texts, interpretations from the New Testament, and commentaries from the Church Fathers. There are excerpts from the Qur’an, from medieval Jewish commentaries, from Thomas Aquinas and other later figures, aswell as-representative texts of the Protestant Reformation. One section focuses oh nineteenth-century. America and the antebellum debate on slavery, the struggle for women’s equality, and new religious movements such as the Shakers and Christian-.Science. Twentieth-century texts from all three traditions conclude the volume. A special appendix focuses on race and Genesis 1-3 at the turn of the new millennium.
These readings demonstrate the remarkable hold the story of Eve and Adam has had on the Western imagination. Though the biblical account has been invoked throughout history to justify all manner of discrimination, this book reveals an equally rich tradition of egalitarian interpretation. These texts are lively representatives of a debate that continues to animate men and women to this day.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy
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