Bible Review

J. A. Phillips’s important and useful book, Eve: The History of an Idea (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1984) traces the development of Eve’s image through history.

See Hugh Trevor-Roper, “Witches and Witchcraft,” (1 and 2) Encounter 28 (1967); Rosemary Ruether, “The Persecution of Witches,” Christianity and Crisis 34 (1974); “The Malleus Maleficarum: The Woman as Witch,” in Women and Religion, eds. E. Clark and H. Richardson (New York: Harper and Row, 1977), ch. 10.

Summa Theologica, Part 1, Question 92, article 1.

Quoted from Saint Ambrose: Hexameron, Paradise, and Cain and Abel, trans. J.J. Savage (New York: Fathers of the Church Inc., 1961), p. 301. Ambrose: 374, On Paradise, 4, 24; 10, 47.

Quoted from The Anti-Nicene Fathers, vol. 4 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1956), p.14. On the Apparel of Women, Book 1, chapter 1.

Bernard Prusak traces the development of the interpretation of Genesis 2–3 and other biblical texts in the Pseudepigraphical literature in his article “Women: Seductive Siren and Source of Sin?” in Religion and Sexism, ed. Rosemary Ruether (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1974), pp. 89–116.

This reconstruction is conveniently presented in Helmut Koester’s prize-winning book, Introduction to the New Testament (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982), vol. 2: History and Literature of Early Christianity, pp. 53–54, 126–130.