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Eternally Eve
Anne Lapidus Lerner
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Description for Eternally Eve
paperback. A fascinating analysis of the story of Eve, using modern poetry in conversation with biblical texts and rabbinic rewritings to reveal new layers of meaning Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; HRLC1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 395.
The biblical accounts of Eve's life are central to Western culture, occupying a privileged place in our literature and art, culture, and society. For both Judaism and Christianity, these stories involving Eve have for centuries been entangled with the religious and social construction of gender. The ambiguous biblical record of her life from the two versions of her creation, through her encounter with the forbidden fruit, to her expulsion from Eden, and followed by the tantalizing glimpses of her life in the real world has served through the ages as a mirror of commonly held views about women. For Jewish ... Read more
The biblical accounts of Eve's life are central to Western culture, occupying a privileged place in our literature and art, culture, and society. For both Judaism and Christianity, these stories involving Eve have for centuries been entangled with the religious and social construction of gender. The ambiguous biblical record of her life from the two versions of her creation, through her encounter with the forbidden fruit, to her expulsion from Eden, and followed by the tantalizing glimpses of her life in the real world has served through the ages as a mirror of commonly held views about women. For Jewish ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781584655732
SKU
V9781584655732
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Ref
99-1
About Anne Lapidus Lerner
ANNE LAPIDUS LERNER is Assistant Professor of Jewish Literature and Director of the Program in Jewish Women's Studies at Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City. She is a co-editor of Gender and Text: Feminist Perspectives on Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures (1992).
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