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Eternally Eve (Paperback)
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Eternally Eve (Paperback)
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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 readers, Eve's role as metonym --
signifying womanhood, or Jewish womanhood, as a whole -- is of
prime importance. By tracing the imagined character of Eve from
ancient times to the present, Eternally Eve opens a window on the
transmission and persistence of cultural and social values.
Eternally Eve takes as its subject the many ways these stories can
be read, interpreting the biblical narratives as well as their
iteration by rabbinic midrashists and modern poets. Anne Lapidus
Lerner argues that we must set aside, or at least rethink, a series
of assumptions about Eve that have been dominant in Jewish thought
for centuries and instead return to the original texts to
rediscover meanings implicit in them. Using modern poetry about Eve
as a touchstone for reinterpreting older texts, Lerner discovers
that Genesis is often more open to contemporary values than are
later rabbinic texts. Linking sacred texts to works of the
classical and modern imagination, Lerner restores to her sources
meanings suppressed or neglected over many years and demonstrates
their power to speak today.
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