Creating Gender in the Garden: The Inconstant Partnership of Eve and Adam

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