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Forming Femininity in Antiquity

Vita Daphna Arbel
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      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 ofEve, 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, anddiscusses 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Vita Daphna Arbel EAN: 9780199837779 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 386 g HEIGHT: 217 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2012-02-16 CITY: GENRE: RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Bible Study Guides, RELIGION / Christianity / History WIDTH: 147 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      History of religion, Christianity, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

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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.
      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 ofEve, 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, anddiscusses 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Vita Daphna Arbel EAN: 9780199837779 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 386 g HEIGHT: 217 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2012-02-16 CITY: GENRE: RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Bible Study Guides, RELIGION / Christianity / History WIDTH: 147 cm SPINE:

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      History of religion, Christianity, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

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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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