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Eve & Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender |
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Published: 1999-04 |
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 Recommended as a reference book
Eve & Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender by Linda S. Schearing (Editor), Valarie H. Ziegler (Editor), Kristen E. Kvam (Editor) is, indeed, a collection of proses and commentaries on Genesis and Gender. So if you are looking for a relaxing yet informative book about Adam and Eve (sorry! "Eve and Adam") to read on the beach or while visiting your in-laws, do not consider this book.
This is a serious, academic (to the point of near boredom!) book that demonstrates "the remarkable hold the story of Eve and Adam has on the Western imagination".
So why four stars? I gave four stars because the book did not meet my objective-a relaxing read on Adam and Eve. Why not three star then? I did not give a three star rating because the book provided some serious information about the sad nature of gender discrimination.
Recommended as a good reference.
 Valuable, but Skewed
I'm not going to say it's a bad book. There are very few books that draw together so many fine and seminal pieces of literature and play them against one another so well. It's a fine book.
There are, however, features of the book which are just maddening. Did ancient religious scholars stop to question the historicity of Genesis 1-3? No, out of enlightened self-interest (and a strong wish to avoid being executed as an apostate) they did not. As the modern inheritors of that legacy, we are not quite so bound up in the literal. I think the editors, all very capible, might have included more material from the mythological, metaphysical, and allegorical readings of creation and fall.
It is an exceptional book as it is--but it could be a real masterwork if some slightly more heretical material were included.
 Essential reference book for anything about Eve!
Magnificant book! The authors have done a tremendous job collecting together a broad but representative array of readings about Eve from three religious traditions. Anyone doing research on the Adam and Eve story, or anyone wanting the background to the naming and valuation of women which has developed from the Adam and Eve story must get this book! Helpful summaries move the reader through the plethora of material, noting important changes and developments in thinking through the centuries. A great text for women's studies, feminist theologies and literary studies.
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