Full Description
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.
The 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. Chapters trace the evolution of Eve's interpretive history from ancient biblical texts up to the present day. The contributors engage with both traditional modes of inquiry in text-based religious research as well as the newer fields of reception history and cultural criticism to explore the rich history of interpretation and reception surrounding Eve, as well as the cultural and historical impact these interpretations have had on women's religious and social lives across space and time.
The Routledge Companion to Eve is an original and important collection which will equip readers to begin their own explorations of Eve's extraordinary legacy. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars of Gender Studies, Biblical Studies, Theology, Religion and Gender, Literary Studies, History of Art, and Cultural Studies.
Contents
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 in Three Nag Hammadi Texts 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. Eve in Milton's 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 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. Eve 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
