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

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Barbara Deutschmann (University of Divinity, Australia) Laura Quick (Princeton University USA)

Creating Gender in the Garden

The Inconstant Partnership of Eve and Adam

Barbara Deutschmann (University of Divinity, Australia), Laura Quick (Princeton University USA), Jacqueline Vayntrub (Yale University USA)

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T.& T.Clark Ltd
21 September 2023

Old Testaments; Christian aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships

Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies

Winner of the 2023 ANZATS Award for the Best Monograph by an Emerging Scholar

What can explain the persistence of gender inequality throughout history? Do narratives such as the Eden story explain that dissymmetry or contribute to it? This book suggests that the Hebrew Bible began and has sustained a rich conversation about sex and gender throughout its life. A literary study of the Garden of Eden story reveals a focus on the human partnership as integral to the divine creation project. Texts from other Hebrew Bible genres build a picture of robust and flexible partnerships within a patriarchal framework.

In popular culture, Eve still carries the stench of guilt while Adam, seemingly unscathed by Eden events, remains a positive symbol of manhood. This book helps explain why they have had such different histories. The book also charts the subversive alternate streams of interpretation of women’s writings and rabbinic texts.

The story of Adam and Eve demonstrates how conceptions of gender in both ancient and modern worlds reflect larger philosophical schemes. Far from existing as timeless verities, female and male relations are constructed according to cultural imperatives of the day. Understanding the different ways that Adam and Eve have been conceived gives us perspective on our own twenty-first century gender architecture.

By: Barbara Deutschmann (University of Divinity Australia)
Edited by: Laura Quick (Princeton University USA), Jacqueline Vayntrub (Yale University USA)
Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780567704597
ISBN 10: 0567704599
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 21 September 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Barbara Deutschmann is Postdoctoral Research Associate with the University of Divinity, Australia.

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

This book offers a corrective to interpretations of Genesis that pit the man and the woman against each other and is cogently argued analysis of the Hebrew Bible's approach to questions of gender and sex ... This is an important study that introduces a significant new concept in the study of Genesis 2-4: partnership. * The Bible Today *