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Author Arbel, Vita Daphna

Title Forming femininity in antiquity : Eve, gender, and ideologies in the Greek life of Adam and Eve / Vita Daphna Arbel
Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 232 pages) : illustrations
Contents Eve and the fallen angels: -- Traditions of the first sin -- Representations of Eve: forming femininity -- Eve and the account of Adam's demise: social performances of death -- The visions of Eve, conceptualizations of women, and parallel discourses
Summary 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 late antiquity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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SUBJECT Life of Adam and Eve -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Life of Adam and Eve fast
Subject Femininity -- Religious aspects.
Form Electronic book
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
LC no. 2011037888
ISBN 0199837775
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