1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Eve

Edited By Caroline Blyth, Emily Colgan Copyright 2024
464 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

464 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

464 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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).