Creating Gender in the Garden
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Creating Gender in the Garden

The Inconstant Partnership of Eve and Adam

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Creating Gender in the Garden

The Inconstant Partnership of Eve and Adam

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Winner of the 2023 ANZATS Award for the Best Monograph by an Emerging Scholar 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.

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Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2022
ISBN
9780567704573
Edition
1
Topic
Théologie et religion
Subtopic
Études bibliques

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. The Present Study
  9. Chapter 1 Questions, Assumptions, and Viewpoints
  10. Chapter 2 The Garden as Tableau: Genesis 2
  11. Chapter 3 The Partnership in Action: Genesis 3
  12. Chapter 4 The Partnership of Brothers: Genesis 4
  13. Chapter 5 Reading for Gender: Inauguration to Contestation
  14. Chapter 6 Eden and Gender
  15. Chapter 7 The Couple in Context: The Hebrew Bible and Gender
  16. Chapter 8 Looking Back: Hierarchy Rules
  17. Chapter 9 Women and Rabbis Dissent
  18. Chapter 10 Reading Forward
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index of References
  21. Index of Authors
  22. Index of Subjects