Creating Gender in the Garden: The Inconstant Partnership of Eve and Adam
- London T&T Clark 2022
- 270p
- Library of Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament Studies - 729 .
Chapter 1, Questions, Assumptions, and Viewpoints, Focus Texts, Wisdom Resonances, Awkward Neighbors, Conclusion, Chapter2, The garden as Tableau: Genesis 2, The Prelude Genesis 2: 4b-25, Review 2: 4b-25, Chapter 3, The partnership in action: Genesis 3, The naked partnership: 2:25-3:7, Crisis 3:1b-6, The knowing partnership: 3:7, 20-22, The troubled partnership 3:8-19, The Serpent: Genesis 3:14-15, The woman: Genesis 3:16, The Man: Genesis 3:17-19, Genesis 3:22-24, Review 2:25-3:24, Chapter 4, The Partnership of Brothers: Genesis4, The next generation, Competition, The Divine response, Cain`s Line, Adam`s line, Eve`s line, Conclusion, Chapter 5, Reading for gender:, Inauguration to contestation, Twenty-first-century perspectives, Text, Language and Culture, Man and Woman, Masculinity, Femininity, Chapter6, Eden and Gender, The Man, Summary: The gendered female, The partnership, Conclusion, Chapter7, The couple in context:, The Hebrew Bible and Gender, Interrogating Patriarchy, Torah, Same-sex sexuality, The private is political: Genesis Ancestral Narratives, Wavering gender roles in Ruth, Sexuality and the Songs of Songs, Conclusion, Chapter8, Looking back: Hierarchy Rules, Section One: Interpretation before the common era, Section Two: Early Christian Perspectives, Conclusion, Chapter 9, Women and Rabbis Dissent, Rabbinic Interpretations, Conclusions: Rabbinic writings, Women`s writing, Review, Chapter 10, Reading forward, The partnership in Historical and current sex/gender frameworks, Polarization in two stages, Feminist Critique, Finally