The poets (and scholars based on my research) who I will discuss in this essay have chosen to re-examine and transform the tradition—the scholars by studying the texts again in their original languages and contexts, and the creative writers by re-imagining the lives of women in the Bible—to discover the "creative power, dignity, and goodness" of women in their texts. Their work on the character of Eve, the archetypal woman in Western thought, as she appears in the Genesis accounts of creation and in the varied interpretations of her, illustrates the many dimensions of this feminist re-envisioning of women's place in the Bible and in women's understanding of their place before God and the rest of humanity. Perhaps the best way to begin this study of Eve is to look at some of the "canonized mythology" of Eve. Scripture scholar Phyllis Trible explains the difficulty that Genesis passages about Eve pose for modern women: "Throughout the ages people have used this text to legitimate......

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Title: Intertextuality
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