Here is the image Prof Ewen showed last week in class depicting Adam blaming Eve for tasting the fruit of knowledge (and she blaming the serpent in turn)...The image reveals a clear interpretation of Genesis. Look through the scene...a traditional art historical description is available from National Gallery of Art. What "common sense" emerges from this allegory of man's fate as "cast out" of the Garden of Eden due to the actions of woman? The ideas derived from this interpretation still pervade and are popular in our culture: women as temptresses, women as distracting, trouble-making, inferior, destructive, needing to be controlled, etc.
An interesting account of traditional and more radical interpretations of Genesis:
A Reinterpretation of Eve and Genesis
And some writing on the Bible and patriarchy:
Eve and the Identity of Women
Domenichino (painter)
Italian, 1581 - 1641
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, 1626
oil on canvas
Overall: 121.9 x 172.1 cm (48 x 67 3/4 in.)
An interesting account of traditional and more radical interpretations of Genesis:
A Reinterpretation of Eve and Genesis
And some writing on the Bible and patriarchy:
Eve and the Identity of Women
Domenichino (painter)Italian, 1581 - 1641
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, 1626
oil on canvas
Overall: 121.9 x 172.1 cm (48 x 67 3/4 in.)
duartek
Feb 17, 2009 8:04 PM
I took a class last semester called woman and religion and it was so interesting because we realized how in every religion woman are suppressed or made inferior in one way or another. Something interesting we read was how in the bible in 1st Corinthians 14:34-35 - "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but to be under obedience, as also saith the law.And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church." This was crazy because i have never really read the bible so meticulously but here we see how woman are placed inferior to men and put down. Woman are not allowed to speak or do anything and if we do learn something to check with a male figure. This is outrages and If you read the bible you will find out it has various accounts of this sexism.
sidneyv
Feb 25, 2009 11:17 AM
I am Catholic and I read the bible, I am sorry to say this, but Adam shouldn't have yelled at Eve even though she is inferior to him. He ate from the apple Eve gave him, so in a sense he his as the same as her. She got tricked by the snake. Adam got tricked by Eve. I hope that made sense.