RT Article
T1 It’s All Eve’s Fault: The Evolution of a Written and Visual Interpretive Tradition
JF Religion and the arts
VO 26
IS 3
SP 273
OP 316
A1 Englard, Yaffa
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1805827928
AB The traditional reading of the biblical account of the Garden of Eden has left a weighty imprint on Western civilization, holding Eve solely to blame for introducing sin into the human world and thus the loss of Paradise, suffering, and death. This paper seeks to demonstrate the way in which Jewish and Christian theological and interpretative traditions of this story are concretely exemplified in medieval visual representations whose influence can still be seen in the twenty-first century.
K1 visual interpretive traditions
K1 written exegetical traditions
K1 Original Sin
K1 Eve
DO 10.1163/15685292-02603001