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Forming Femininity in Antiquity

Eve, Gender, and Ideologies in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve [Hardback]

by Vita Daphna Arbel

    • Author

      Vita Daphna Arbel

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Oxford University Press

    • Published

      February 2012

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      Forming Femininity in Antiquity

      Today's Price £138.57

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      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 a focus 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 times contradictory 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 the extent 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.

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      • Author

        Vita Daphna Arbel

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Oxford University Press

      • Published

        February 2012

      • Weight

        377g

      • Page Count

        256

      • Dimensions

        145 x 214 x 26 mm

      • ISBN

        9780199837779

      • ISBN-10

        0199837775

      • Eden Code

        4024400

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      • Author/Creator: Vita Daphna Arbel

      • ISBN: 9780199837779

      • Publisher: Oxford University Press

      • Release Date: February 2012

      • Weight: 377g

      • Dimensions: 145 x 214 x 26 mm

      • Eden Code: 4024400

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