EVE: INFLUENTIAL GLIMPSES FROM HER STORY

  • Maretha M. Jacobs University of South Africa

Abstract

Having inherited Christianity and its institutional manifestations from their male ancestors, whose voices were for many centuries, and are still, inextricably linked to that of God, women only recently started to ask the all important why-questions about the Christian religion, its origin and its effects on their lives. In this article a look is taken at some glimpses from the mostly male story about Eve, by which women’s lives were deeply influenced. By detecting the contexts, history, motivations and interests behind aspects of this story, it is exposed for what it is: A male construct or constructs and not “how it really was and is” about Eve and her female descendants.
Published
2013-06-12
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Articles