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This anthology on Eve brings together an international group of
scholars to discuss how this character has been interpreted by
Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In a time when the history of
women is being reassessed, it is natural that women look to the
paradigmatic female figure. This treatment of Eve covers her wide
range of roles as mother of our race, victim, stooge, wife,
companion, independent thinker, and "helper". A venerated figure by
many modern feminists and a denigrated figure by those who blame
her for original sin, no reader will leave these pages indifferent
to the first woman.
David the king, when studied against the backdrop of existing
material cultural remains from the ancient Middle East, scarcely
seems to have been there. Excavations in Jerusalem have turned up
nothing concrete about his existence. The literature concerning him
is fraught with problems and generally takes on a
legendary-mythological character. Even the meaning of his name is
unclear. If he is mentioned at all by his contemporary monarchs
against whom he would have fought it is only obliquely or only
intimated by omissions or partial spellings in context. This volume
attempts to advance scholarship addressing these concerns.
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