Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender

Cover......Page 1
Eve & Adam......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PERMISSIONS......Page 14
General Introduction......Page 22
 INTRODUCTION......Page 36
  The Seven Days of Creation......Page 43
  A Garden in Eden......Page 47
  Sent from the Garden......Page 52
  Life after Eden......Page 57
  Adam's Descendants......Page 59
 INTRODUCTION......Page 62
 APOCRYPHA (DEUTEROCANON) AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHA......Page 68
  1 Enoch 1-36 (c. 200s BCE)......Page 69
  Sirach (c. 180 BCE)......Page 70
  Jubilees (c. mid-100s BCE)......Page 72
  2 Esdras (c. 100 CE)......Page 76
  2 Baruch (c. early 100s CE)......Page 77
  Life of Adam and Eve (c. late 100s-400 CE)......Page 79
  Philo, Quaestiones et Solutiones in Genesin (c. 20s-40s CE)......Page 85
  Josephus, Jewish Antiquities (c. 90s CE)......Page 88
 INTRODUCTION......Page 90
  Humankind's Creation......Page 98
  The Disobedience......Page 106
  Adam and Eve after Eden......Page 117
  Humankind in the Post-Edenic World......Page 119
 TARGUMS......Page 121
  Targum Onqelos to Genesis (c. 100S CE)......Page 122
  Targum Pseudo-Jonathan: Genesis (pre-600 CE)......Page 125
 INTRODUCTION......Page 129
 NEW TESTAMENT......Page 137
   1 Corinthians 11:3-12......Page 138
   Ephesians 5:21-6:9......Page 139
 EXTRACANONICAL SOURCES......Page 140
  The Gospel According to Thomas (c. 50-150 CE)......Page 141
  The Gospel According to Philip (pre-350 CE)......Page 143
  The Acts of Thecla (c. 100s CE)......Page 145
 CHURCH FATHERS......Page 149
  Theophilus, "Apology to Autolycus" (late 100s CE)......Page 150
  Anastasius Sinaita, Anagogicarum Contemplationum (c. 150-250 CE)......Page 152
  Tertullian, "On the Apparel of Women" (c. 202 CE)......Page 153
  Origen, "Homilies on Genesis" (c. 240 CE)......Page 154
  Ambrose, "Paradise" (c. 375 CE)......Page 157
  John Chrysostom, Homilies on Genesis (c. 386 CE)......Page 163
  Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis (begun c. 401 CE)......Page 169
 INTRODUCTION......Page 177
 ISLAM......Page 199
   Surah 2, The Cow: 2:29-38, 222-23, 228......Page 200
   Surah 4, Women: 4:1, 3, 34-36, 116-20, 128-30......Page 201
   Surah 7, The Heights: 7:19-27, 189-90......Page 202
   Surah 15, Al-Hijr: 15:26-45......Page 203
   Surah 24, Light: 24:30-33......Page 204
   Surah 49, The Private Apartments: 49:13......Page 205
  Al-Tabari, Commentary on the Qur'an (c. late 800s CE)......Page 207
  Al-Kisa'i, The Tales of the Prophets of al-Kisa'i (collected c. 1200 CE)......Page 212
  Ibn al-Arabi, The Bezels of Wisdom (c. 1200S CE)......Page 221
  Midrashic Themes (c. 600-1300s CE)......Page 224
   Woman: God's Answer to God's Problem......Page 225
   Prince Sammael and the Serpent......Page 226
   Sammael and Eve Punished......Page 227
   The Children of Adam and Eve......Page 228
  Rashi, Commentary on the Pentateuch (c. late 1000s CE)......Page 229
  Nahmanides, Commentary on the Torah (c. 1200S CE)......Page 234
  Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed (c. late 1100s CE)......Page 237
  Isaac Kohen, A Treatise on the Left Emanation (c. 1200s CE)......Page 241
  The Zohar (c. late 1200s CE)......Page 243
 CHRISTIANITY......Page 246
  Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (begun late 1260s CE)......Page 247
  Christine de Pizan, "Letter of the God of Love" (1399 CE)......Page 258
  Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum (1496 CE)......Page 263
 INTRODUCTION......Page 270
 FIVE REFORMATION THINKERS......Page 282
  Balthasar Hubmaier, Freedom of the Will (1527 CE)......Page 283
  Martin Luther, Lectures on Genesis (begun 1535 CE)......Page 288
  John Calvin, Commentaries on the First Book of Moses Called Genesis (c. 1555 CE)......Page 297
  Margaret Fell, Women's Speaking: Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures (1666 CE)......Page 303
  John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667 CE)......Page 309
 INTRODUCTION......Page 326
 ANTEBELLUM DEBATES ON HOUSEHOLD HIERARCHIES: PROSLAVERY AND ANTISLAVERY VIEWS......Page 344
  Fred A. Ross, Slavery Ordained of God (1857 CE)......Page 345
  Samuel B. How, Slaveholding Not Sinful (1856 CE)......Page 347
  Josiah Priest, Bible Defence of Slavery (1851 CE)......Page 353
  Rev. Charles Elliott, Sinfulness of American Slavery (1851 CE)......Page 354
  Sarah Grimké, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1838 CE)......Page 361
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, editor, The Woman's Bible (1895, 1898 CE)......Page 367
  Shakers......Page 377
  Frederick W. Evans, Autobiography of a Shaker (1888 CE) and Compendium (1867 CE)......Page 378
  Paulina Bates, The Divine Book of Holy and Eternal Wisdom (1849 CE)......Page 381
  Oneida Community......Page 384
  John Humphrey Noyes, History of American Socialisms (1870 CE)......Page 385
  Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (c. 1875 CE)......Page 389
 INTRODUCTION......Page 392
 HIERARCHICAL INTERPRETATIONS......Page 408
  Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, "The Danvers Statement" (1987 CE)......Page 409
  Susan T. Foh, "The Head of the Woman Is the Man" (1989 CE)......Page 412
  Joseph H. Hertz, editor, The Authorized Daily Prayer Book (1945 CE)......Page 422
  Samuel H. Dresner, "Homosexuality and the Order of Creation" (1991 CE)......Page 425
  Sayyid Abu al-A'la Mawdudi, Towards Understanding the Qur'an (1942-1972 CE)......Page 434
 EGALITARIAN INTERPRETATIONS......Page 440
  Sun Ai Lee Park, Poem (Untitled) (c. 1991 CE)......Page 441
  Judith Plaskow, "The Coming of Lilith: Toward a Feminist Theology" (1979 CE) and "Lilith Revisited" (1995 CE)......Page 443
  Phyllis Trible, "Eve and Adam: Genesis 2-3 Reread" (1973 CE) and "Not a Jot, Not a Tittle: Genesis 2-3 after Twenty Years" (1995 CE)......Page 452
  Jouette M. Bassler, "Deception in the Garden: 1 Timothy 2:11-15" (1994 CE)......Page 465
  Ann Holmes Redding, "Not Again: Another Look at the Household Codes" (1995 CE)......Page 477
  Riffat Hassan, "The Issue of Woman-Man Equality in the Islamic Tradition" (1993 CE)......Page 485
  Nancy Datan, "Forbidden Fruits and Sorrow" (1986 CE)......Page 498
 INTRODUCTION......Page 504
 NINETEENTH-CENTURY PREADAMITE APPROACHES......Page 506
  A Minister [D. G. Phillips], "Nachesh: What Is It? or An Answer to the Question, 'Who and What Is the Negro?' Drawn from Revelation" (1868 CE)......Page 507
  Prospera, "Caliban: A Sequel to 'Ariel'" (1868 CE)......Page 512
  Wesley A. Swift, "God, Man, Nations & the Races" (no date)......Page 517
  Richard G. Butler, "Who, What, Why, When, Where: Aryan Nations" (no date) and "The Aryan Warrior" (no date)......Page 521
INDEX......Page 524