Eve: The Unbearable Flaming Fire / / ed. by John T. Greene, Mishael M. Caspi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Aharoni, Irit,; Aharony, Irit,; Caspi, Mishael M.,; Christensen, Duane,; Forti, Tova,; Greene, John T.,; Hain, Herb,; Havrelock, Rachel S.,; Havrelock, Rachel,
• HerausgeberIn: Caspi, Mishael M.,; Greene, John T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Intersections ; Volume
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (182 p.)

This anthology on Eve brings together an international group of scholars to discuss how this character has been interpreted by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In a time when the history of women is being reassessed, it is natural that women look to the paradigmatic female figure. This treatment of Eve covers her wide range of roles as mother of our race, victim, stooge, wife, companion, independent thinker, and “helper”. A venerated figure by many modern feminists and a denigrated figure by those who blame her for original sin, no reader will leave these pages indifferent to the first woman.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgement -- Prolegomenon -- The Mother of Life and the Infertility of Eden -- The Polarity of Wisdom and Fear of God in the Eden Narrative and in the Book of Proverbs -- Did Eve Know What was Hidden in the Apple? -- The Whore and the Wife -- The Death and Resurrection(s) of Eve: Reversing the Misfortunes of the Theios Aner and Other Dying and Rising Gods and Goddesses -- Eve in Eden