The Routledge Companion to Eve is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary collection which explores the history of interpretation that surrounds Eve’s character in both religious writings and cultural texts.
The primary themes discussed in the volume include the religious, historical, and cultural ideologies that have influenced interpretations of Eve, as well as the cultural impact of these interpretations on gender identities and injustices. Chapters trace the evolution of Eve’s interpretive history from ancient biblical texts up to the present day. The contributors engage with both traditional modes of inquiry in text-based religious research as well as the newer fields of reception history and cultural criticism to explore the rich history of interpretation and reception surrounding Eve, as well as the cultural and historical impact these interpretations have had on women’s religious and social lives across space and time.
The Routledge Companion to Eve is an original and important collection which will equip readers to begin their own explorations of Eve’s extraordinary legacy. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars of Gender Studies, Biblical Studies, Theology, Religion and Gender, Literary Studies, History of Art, and Cultural Studies.
Introduction
Caroline Blyth and Emily Colgan
Part I: Eve’s Interpretative Afterlives in Religious Texts and Traditions
1. Eve in the Hebrew Bible
Carol Meyers
2. Eve in the New Testament
Michael Scott Robertson
3. Because of Her We All Die: Eve in Early Jewish and Early Christian Reception
Sara Parks
4. The Rape of Eve in Three Nag Hammadi Texts
Celene Lillie
5. Disruption, Disorder, and Death: Eve (and Lilith) in Classical Rabbinic Literature
Barbara Thiede
6. Ḥawwāʾ: Eve in medieval Islamic sources
Zohar Hadromi-Allouche
Part II: Eve’s Cultural Afterlives in Literature, Music, and Visual Culture
6. "Since God formed the first woman from Adam’s rib": Traces of Eve in Medieval French Romance
Tracy Adams
7. Eve in Milton’s Paradise Lost
David Urban
8. "Daughters of Eve": Eve’s Complex Legacy in Early Modern English Conduct Guides and Polemical Pamphlets
Hannah Bormann
9. Reading Eve in Victorian Literature: Revisiting the Fallen Woman and the Angel in the House
Alison Jack
10. New Eves for Old: Revisioning Eve in Second-Wave Feminist Fiction
Jeanette King
11. Tomorrow’s Eves: Figurations in and around Feminist SF
Rhiannon Graybill
12. Sex, Lies, and Disobedience: Eve in the Evangelical Christian Imagination
Caroline Blyth and Emily Colgan
13. The Reception of Eve in Music
Siobhán Dowling Long
14. "Beautiful to Look Upon, Contaminating to the Touch, and Deadly to Keep": On the Iconology of Eve in Western Christian Art
Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
15. The Depiction of Eve in Russian Icons
Marina Pasichnik
16. "If Eve ain't in your garden": Queering Eve in Modern and Contemporary Art
Maryanne Saunders
17. Troubling Eden: Eve and Adam in Advertising
Shelly Colette
18. All About Eve: Twenty-First Century Television Goes Back to the Beginning
Holly Morse
Part III: Eve’s Contextual and Hermeneutical Afterlives
19. Eve in the Backyard of the Earth: Ancestralities of Words, Trees, and Women
Nancy Cardoso
20. Eve Meets Medusa
Yael Cameron
21. Re-Imagining Eve: An Eco-Womanist Reading of the Mother of Humanity as Wise and Eco-conscious
Ericka Shawndricka Dunbar
22. Beyond Eve and Eden: The Theopoetics of Genesis 2–3
Lizette Tapia-Raquel
23. Homing Woman-Eve in Native World(view)s: A Moana Reading
Jione Havea
24. Restor(e)ying Eve and the Serpent
Brian Kolia
25. Eve and the Punishment of Heterosexuality
Chris Greenough
26. Eve and Psychoanalytic Approaches
Johanna Stiebert
Biography
Caroline Blyth is a writer and editor currently based in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her recent publications include Reimagining Delilah’s Afterlives as Femme Fatale (2017), The Bible in Crime Fiction and Drama (co-edited with Alison Jack, 2019), and Rape Culture, Purity Culture and Coercive Control in Teen Girl Bibles (2021).
Emily Colgan is Manukura/Principal at St John’s College, Hoani Tapu te Kaikauwhau i te Rongopai, Aotearoa New Zealand. Recent publications include a multi-volume work, co-edited with Caroline Blyth and Katie Edwards, entitled Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion (2018).
