The Routledge companion to eve / edited by Caroline Blyth and Emily Colgan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blyth, Caroline, 1967- editor.

Colgan, Emily, editor.

Series:

Routledge Companions to Gender Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eve (Biblical figure).

Eve.

Theater--Political aspects.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, England : Routledge, [2024]

Summary:

"The Routledge Companion to Eve is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary collection which explores the history of interpretation that surrounds Eve's character in both religious writings and cultural texts. Primary themes discussed in the volume include the religious, historical, and cultural ideologies that have influenced interpretations of Eve, as well as the cultural impact of these interpretations on gender identities and injustices. The chapters in this volume engage with both traditional modes of inquiry in text-based religious research as well as the increasingly popular and expanding fields of reception history and cultural criticism. Structured in three sections, the volume traces the evolution of Eve's interpretive history, from ancient biblical texts up to the present day. Contributors use a range of methodologies and hermeneutical approaches to explore the rich history of interpretation and reception surrounding this biblical figure, as well as the cultural and historical impact these interpretations have had on women's religious and social lives across space and time. The volume will therefore equip readers to begin their own explorations of Eve's extraordinary legacy. This is an original and important collection suitable for scholars of Gender Studies, Biblical Studies, Theology, Religion and Gender, Literary Studies, History of Art, and Cultural Studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Introduction

Part I: Eve's Interpretative Afterlives in Religious Texts and Traditions

1 Eve in the Hebrew Bible

2 Eve in the New Testament

3 Because of Her We All Die: Eve in Early Jewish and Early Christian Reception

4 The Rape of Eve

5 Disruption, Disorder, and Death: Eve (and Lilith) in Classical Rabbinic Literature

6 Ḥawwāʾ: Eve in Medieval Islamic Sources

Part II: Eve's Cultural Afterlives in Literature, Music, and Visual Culture

7 "Since God Formed the First Woman From Adam's Rib": Traces of Eve in Medieval French Romance

8 John Milton's Eve in Paradise Lost

9 "Daughters of Eve": Eve's Complex Legacy in Early Modern English Conduct Guides and Polemical Pamphlets

10 Reading Eve in Victorian Literature: Revisiting the Fallen Woman and the Angel in the House

11 New Eves for Old: Revisioning Eve in Second-Wave Feminist Fiction

12 Tomorrow's Eves: Figurations in and Around Feminist SF

13 Sex, Lies, and Disobedience: Eve in the Evangelical Christian Imagination

14 The Reception of Eve in Music

15 "Beautiful to Look Upon, Contaminating to the Touch, and Deadly to Keep": On the Iconology of Eve in Western Christian Art

16 The Depiction of Eve in Russian Icons

17 "If Eve Ain't in Your Garden": Queering Eve in Modern and Contemporary Art

18 Troubling Eden: Eve and Adam in Advertising

19 All About Eve: Twenty-First-Century Television Goes Back to the Beginning

Part III: Eve's Contextual and Hermeneutical Afterlives

20 Eva in the Backyard of the Earth: Ancestralities of Words, Trees, and Women

21 Eve Meets Medusa.

22 Re-Imagining Eve: An Eco-Womanist Reading of the Mother of Humanity as Wise and Eco-Conscious

23 Beyond Eve and Eden: The Theopoetics of Genesis 2-3

24 Homing Woman-Eve in Native World(view)s: A Moana Reading

25 Restor(e)ying Eve and the Serpent

26 Eve and the Punishment of Heterosexuality

27 Eve and Psychoanalytic Approaches

Scriptures and Sacred Texts Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-313233-2

1-003-13233-2

1-000-92899-3

1-000-92901-9

9781003132332

OCLC:

1389557254