Der geteilte Mensch. Einige Gedanken zu Schöpfung, Transformation und Geschlecht in der rabbinischen Tradition

Autor(en)

Gerhard Langer

Abstrakt

The Jewish Rabbinic Traditionhas developeddifferent views on the creation of man. One version speaks of the first man as androgynous, having both male and female parts. As a consequence, man and woman are described as belonging together from the beginning, split asunder violently, yearning for each other. On the other side, rabbinic texts speak of the first Adam as – more or less – being male, and of Eve as the result of a surgery. The consequences are far-reaching. Eve as the second in creation is the model of a subordinated being, Adam a master and commander. After the fall of man, Eve is depicted as
responsible for the death of Adam, punished with, for example, the commandment of Niddah (menstrual laws). Thepaper gives an introduction into both different explanatory
models of the creation of man, its cultural context, and explains how gender is defined by
the rabbis via the myth of creation.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Judaistik

Journal

Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society

Band

5

Seiten

185-213

Anzahl der Seiten

29

ISSN

2365-3140

DOI

https://doi.org/10.14220/jrat.2017.3.2.185

Publikationsdatum

10-2017

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

603906 Jüdische Religion

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Religious studies, Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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