In Forming Femininity in Antiquity, Vita Daphna Arbel investigates depictions of the emblematic Eve that are embedded in one of the most influential accounts of Adam and Eve after the Hebrew Bible, namely the apocryphal Greek Life of Adam and Eve (GLAE) from antiquity. Treating the figure of Eve as a culturally constructed representation of ''woman,'' Arbel examines a crucial transformative stage in the literary and conceptual discourse of Eve, with a focus on several pivotal issues that have not been looked at in previous scholarship. She offers a nuanced analysis of the GLAE's multifaceted and at times contradictory portrayals of Eve and, by extension, women. She also situates these depictions in the hybrid Greco-Roman cultural world in which they emerged, and discusses the extent to which they both reflect and construct contemporaneous overlapping and competing concepts and norms regarding Eve/women's standing, role, authority, and realms of experiences. Finally, Arbel examines how the GLAE's representations of Eve/women resonate with later Jewish and Christian traditions, which often characterize the figure of Eve in accordance with views that are embedded in the GLAE, rather than in Genesis.
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Vita Daphna Arbel's methodologically sophisticated study of the figure of Eve breaks new ground by bringing cultural questions to bear on the Life of Adam and Eve. It shows an impressive mastery of traditional scholarship, but also brings the material into interdisciplinary study of the humanities. This should prove to be a landmark study. * John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament, Yale University *
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Höhe: 222 mm
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978-0-19-983777-9 (9780199837779)
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Vita Daphna Arbel is Associate Professor of Biblical and Early Jewish Literature and Mysticism at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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Associate Professor of Biblical and Early Jewish Literature and MysticismAssociate Professor of Biblical and Early Jewish Literature and Mysticism, University of British Columbia
Abbreviations ; Introduction: Traditions of Eve in Antiquity: The Greek Life of Adam and Eve ; Chapter One: Eve and the Fallen Angels: Traditions of the First Sin ; Chapter Two: Representations of Eve: Forming Femininity ; Chapter Three: Eve and the Account of Adam's Demise: Social Performances of Death ; Chapter Four: The Visions of Eve, Conceptualizations of Women, and Parallel Discourses ; Conclusion: The GLAE's Eve: Multivocality, Women in Antiquity, and Paradigms of Womanhood ; Bibliography
