It’s All Eve’s Fault: The Evolution of a Written and Visual Interpretive Tradition

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...

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主要作者: Englard, Yaffa (Author)
格式: 电子 文件
语言:English
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出版: 2022
In: Religion and the arts
Year: 2022, 卷: 26, 发布: 3, Pages: 273-316
Further subjects:B visual interpretive traditions
B Eve
B Original Sin
B written exegetical traditions
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总结: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.
ISSN:1568-5292
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion and the arts
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02603001