The Portrayal of Women to Men in Genesis
The Portrayal of Women to Men in the Book of Genesis
For the past two-thousand years, the Book of Genesis has served as work of literature to the western civilization. Whether people believed in the Bible or not, the Book of Genesis tell stories they talk about having good morals, teaching live-learned lessons and overall it gives a glimpse of how the first human being acted when the world was developing and how they handle problems and situations. However, even though the book of Genesis shows a tone of life long morals, Genesis also shows the different sides of humans. Genesis shows how human can be deceitful, evil, and disobedient to authority figures. But these traits with humans were rarely displayed by man, but mostly by woman. In the book of Genesis, woman are displayed obstacles and road blocks to these undermining and broad goals through God‘s plan . From the beginning of the book with Garden of Eden to the ending of the story of Joseph, women, as mothers and wives are typically portrayed disloyal, undependable mischievous or, just simply for their womanhood, and they frequently threaten to undermine God's will than men. This portrayal is done because women were not considered equal to man and man was the only thing that God intended to create. Women in Genesis were set as these archetypes that God wanted them to be, but in the narrative its they are shown otherwise. In the beginning of Genesis, God's first tasks to a human being occurs during the first narrative Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve have the responsibility to "be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it"(1:28). However, it is really the second narrative, explaining the details of the creation of man and woman, who then establishes God's structure of the world. In this structure, Eden is created for the first man, Adam, who has one basic obligations towards God, to work and guard Eden and to abstain from eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge . “ From every fruit of the
For the past two-thousand years, the Book of Genesis has served as work of literature to the western civilization. Whether people believed in the Bible or not, the Book of Genesis tell stories they talk about having good morals, teaching live-learned lessons and overall it gives a glimpse of how the first human being acted when the world was developing and how they handle problems and situations. However, even though the book of Genesis shows a tone of life long morals, Genesis also shows the different sides of humans. Genesis shows how human can be deceitful, evil, and disobedient to authority figures. But these traits with humans were rarely displayed by man, but mostly by woman. In the book of Genesis, woman are displayed obstacles and road blocks to these undermining and broad goals through God‘s plan . From the beginning of the book with Garden of Eden to the ending of the story of Joseph, women, as mothers and wives are typically portrayed disloyal, undependable mischievous or, just simply for their womanhood, and they frequently threaten to undermine God's will than men. This portrayal is done because women were not considered equal to man and man was the only thing that God intended to create. Women in Genesis were set as these archetypes that God wanted them to be, but in the narrative its they are shown otherwise. In the beginning of Genesis, God's first tasks to a human being occurs during the first narrative Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve have the responsibility to "be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it"(1:28). However, it is really the second narrative, explaining the details of the creation of man and woman, who then establishes God's structure of the world. In this structure, Eden is created for the first man, Adam, who has one basic obligations towards God, to work and guard Eden and to abstain from eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge . “ From every fruit of the
Cited: Alter, Robert. Genesis. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. Print