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Gnostics

Saint Hildegard of Bingen

Christine de Pizan

Isotta Nogarola

Laura Cereta

Henricus Cornelius Agrippa

Jane Anger

Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo)

Aemilia Lanyer

Rachel Speght

Ester Sowernam and Joan Sharp

Mary Tattle-well and Joane Hit-him-home

Margaret Askew Fell Fox

Mary Astell

Sarah Fyge Field Egerton

Sophia

Judith Sargent Murray

Sarah Moore Grimke and Angelina Grimke

Sojourner Truth

Anna Bonus Kingsford

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Lillie Devereux Blake

Ellen Battelle Dietrick

Merlin Stone

Rosemary Radford Ruether

Barbara MacHaffie

Nancy Tuana

Lynn Gottlieb

1098 - 1179

1365 - c. 1430

1418 - 1466

1469 - 1499

c. 1486-1535

fl. 1589

1555-1592

1568/9 - 1645

1597 - c. 1630

fl. 1617

1640

1614 - 1702

1666 - 1731

1669/72 - 1722/23

c. 1740

1751 - 1820

1792 - 1873 and 1805 - 1879

1797-1883

1846 - 1888

1826 - 1898

1815 - 1902

1833 - 1913

-1895

1976

1983

1986

1993

1995

Gen 1: man and woman both created in God's image at the same time and are equal

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Dual nature of God as man and woman evidence of early Hebrew polytheism

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Order of creation (beasts, man, woman, therefore woman God's crowning glory and man cannot be considered superior to woman without the beasts being considered to man)

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Eve tricked by wily supernatural serpent, not by mere mortal as Adam was decieved

X - easier to seduce unsuspecting Eve who will easily Adam who is deeply in-love with her]

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X, Eve struggled with theological implications of eating forbidden fruit, Adam just gobbled up what he was given

Eve seduced by promise of Knowledge of Good and Evil, a laudable goal

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Adam created in a field, Eve created in paradise

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X, p. 10-11, 12

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Adam created from dirt, Eve created from the most sanctified material possible, Adam's rib

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X, p. 8, p. 13

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Eve created from Adam's rib to stand by his side, not from his foot to be trod on by him or from his head to rule over him

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Eve means "life", Adam means "earth" or "dirt", etomology of the words woman, Eve, etc.

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Adam commanded to leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife. Eve is not given a similar injunction to leave her father and mother.

Eve punished only with pain during child-birth while Adam punished with taking on all of the world's work.

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Adam, not Eve, commanded not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge / Adam sinned in knowledge, Eve in ignorance

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X, p. 30

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Adam does not stop Eve from eating of the forbidded fruit

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Adam tries to blame God for creating Eve for his own fallen nature

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Woman's subordination is a prediction, not a curse or Eve's punishment is lighter than Adam's or Eve's "punishment" (child birth) is really a blessing or meaning of shall vs will

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God rested after creating woman because he could not imagine a superior being to her which it was possible for him to create

X, p. 9, God not only rested, God institued a Festival (the Sabbath) to mark the creation of his crowning glory, woman.

Mary gave to the world much more than Eve took away

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Woman, not man, "crushed the head of the serpent", put emnity between her offspring and the offspring of the serpent

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Eve could not compell Adam to sin since he had free will. Hence, Adam must accept the responsibility for his own actions.

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Adam superior to Eve, therefore more is expected of him.

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Men and women are both created in the same nature as God.

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Insult to God to insult is creation, woman.

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Eve created as a helper for Adam, Adam needed helper because he was inperfect, same word used for Eve helping Adam as for God helping Adam

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Married by the most holy of priests, God

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Text is a bad translation, comments on original meaning of words

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Adam is a rough draft

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Higher criticism - story a myth, allegory, not ture representtion of history

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God alone froms woman from Adam's rib, Adam has nothing to do with creation of woman

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