Eve-olution Reimagining the Mother of Knowledge

Date of Award

2004

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Marks, Susan

Keywords

Eve, Eden, Gender, Gnosticism

Area of Concentration

Humanities

Abstract

For thousands of years, the dominant interpretations of the story of Eden portrayed Eve in a negative light. Since this infamous woman was a model for a women, the implications of these interpretations were so far-reaching as to overpower many attempts to re-envision Eve in a more positive light. Early Christian texts, attributed to Gnostics, have opened new doors of possibilities in interpreting Eve and given a historical grounding for such interpretations. With this new room for alternative readings, the connotations of Eve as evil, deceptive, and inferior to man cannot only be effaced, but new, positive aspects of Eve and women can be highlighted. It is important to retell this story, to spread this alternate interpretation and to explore the possibilities that it holds. The final pages of this thesis do just that.

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