Forming femininity in antiquity: Eve, gender, and ideologies in the Greek life of Adam and Eve

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 HebrewBible, namely the apocryphal Greek Life of Adam and Eve (GLAE) from late antiquity. 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 of Eve, with afocus 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 timescontradictory portrayals of Eve and, by extension, women. She also situates these depictions in the hybrid Greco-Roman cultural world in which they emerged, and discusses theextent 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. INDICE: Abbreviations Introduction: Traditions of Eve in Antiquity: The Greek Life of Adam and Eve Chapter One: Eve and the Fallen Angels: Traditions ofthe First Sin Chapter Two: Representations of Eve: Forming Femininity ChapterThree: Eve and the Account of Adam's Demise: Social Performances of Death Chapter Four: The Visions of Eve, Conceptualizations of Women, and Parallel Discourses Conclusion: The GLAE's Eve: Multivocality, Women in Antiquity, and Paradigms of Womanhood Bibliography

• ISBN: 978-0-19-983777-9
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 16/02/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés