Vita Daphna Arbel investigates depictions of the emblematic Eve that are embedded in one of the most influential accounts of Adam and Eve after the Hebrew Bible, namely the apocryphal Greek Life of Adam and Eve (GLAE) from late antiquity.

Abbreviations ; Introduction: Traditions of Eve in Antiquity: The Greek Life of Adam and Eve ; Chapter One: Eve and the Fallen Angels: Traditions of the First Sin ; Chapter Two: Representations of Eve: Forming Femininity ; Chapter Three: Eve and the Account of Adam's Demise: Social Performances of Death ; Chapter Four: The Visions of Eve, Conceptualizations of Women, and Parallel Discourses ; Conclusion: The GLAE's Eve: Multivocality, Women in Antiquity, and Paradigms of Womanhood ; Bibliography

"Vita Daphna Arbel's methodologically sophisticated study of the figure of Eve breaks new ground by bringing cultural questions to bear on the Life of Adam and Eve. It shows an impressive mastery of traditional scholarship, but also brings the material into interdisciplinary study of the humanities. This should prove to be a landmark study." --John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament, Yale University "This fascinating book brings a multidisciplinary feminist perspective to the critical study of the Greek Life of Adam and Eve, to show how this text engages with the biblical figure of Eve, with other ancient images of Eve, and with the notions of gender and femininity in the early centuries CE. This book is a major contribution to the study of GLAE, and to our understanding of women in antiquity." --Adele Reinhartz, author of Why Ask My Name? Anonymity and Identity in Biblical Narrative "Thought-provoking and erudite...Arbel's documentation and analysis of the myriad dynamic and fluid cultural traditions, conventions, ideologies, and gender conceptions surrounding and emerging out of the GLAE narrative is fascinating and the move beyond purely theological implications long overdue."--H-Judaic