Comments on: Comparing Eve: Group #2

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By: amy Harbo

amy Harbo — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:56:58 +0000

When I read the Genesis account of creation we were assigned, I see in it an ancient people’s attempt to explain and rationalize human suffering in light of an all powerful God.

Another way to regard Mary being used as a vessel to bring forth the Messiah (theotokis) is to read Luke in light of Ezekiel 8-11. The people were waiting for God to rebuild Zion. Ezekiel’s imagery is that of God descending to earth to inhabit the Temple and people falling to their knees in awe. How is this similar to the Lukan account of an angel coming to earth to inform Mary that God will inhabit Mary’s womb (human tabernacle) with Godself and the subsequent human reaction?

By: amy Harbo

amy Harbo — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:41:23 +0000

Most interesting to note that it was Irenaeus who first proposed putting that the first four gospels be put in a canon. And here is why: “The Gospels could not possibly be either more or less in number than they are. Since there are four zones of the world in which we live, and four principal winds, while the Church is spread over all the earth, and the pillar and foundation of the Church is the gospel, and the Spirit of life, it fittingly has four pillars, everywhere breathing out incorruption and revivifying men. From this it is clear that the Word, the artificer of all things, being manifested to men gave us the gospel, fourfold in form but held together by one Spirit” (Against Heresies, 3.11.8). Irenaeus was not a big fan of the gnostics, to state it mildly.

By: Michele

Michele — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:06:03 +0000

Interesting art: Rossetti’s Annunciation shows an emaciated and repressed girl (with red hair) recoiling. Follows the rape theme, esp. if one views rape as a demand to do something you don’t want to do (Jesus wants his cup taken away in Gethsemane, the Virgin would prefer a different gig).
Someone brought to my attention the Venus theme, depicted in Botticelli’s the Birth of Venus. Venus on a clamshell is naked, a philosophical purity. His painting of a clearly sexual Venus seducing Mars features Venus clothed. Doesn’t this mirror Eve naked before knowledge, clothed in a leather outfit fashioned by God after she knows?

By: Lynda

Lynda — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:26:50 +0000

The Genesis 2 story raises the issue of a jealous god. Eating of the tree of knowledge makes Eve and Adam like god and that brings about punishment. The tower of Babel shows us the jealous god again. Are Justin and Irenaues following a similar pattern of punishing that which they cannot control?

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:36:30 +0000

Michele, I agree that knowledge complicates everything, yet it is knowledge that makes us human, no? So if Eve was the one to take the first step towards gaining knowledge, what does that say about Adam’s humanity? If knowledge makes us human, what were we “pre-fall”? I also think it is interesting, at least in my translation (Jewish Study Bible), that God only throws “the man” out of the garden… “see, the man. . . he might reach out his hand. . . He drove out the man” (3:22-24)
I understand that thinking of the annunciation as a “rape” is alarming and makes one want to recoil, but I agree with Amy Harbo in understanding that women have been raped for ages of their agency and voice– I feel like Gabriel (the angel) in Becki Jayne’s image has a look of pity towards Mary. Perhaps he’s the only one who will ever really know what happened?

By: Michele

Michele — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:22:31 +0000

In Justin Martyr, can someone shed some light on th antecedents in the following: “by whom (Christ) God destroys the serpent and those angels and human beings who are like HIM but gives deliverance from death to those who repent of their wickedness and believe in HIM.” I’m confused — God destroys the serpent etc who are like God (who seek to know as God knows?) but gives deliverance to those who believe in him (Jesus?) Is Justin really telling us not to ask questions?
It is true on every level that knowledge confuses everything (look at this course!) But we have eyes to see and ears to hear, both God given. And isn’t it knowledge that enriches us even as it challenges us? Eve doesn’t “disbelieve” as Iraneus writes; she seeks and discovers the difference between good and evil. A dirty job, to be sure, but it’s interesting that God considered it women’s work.