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The views of women presented in the Hebrew Bible (also called Tanakh in Judaism, Old Testament in Christianity and Taurat/Tawrah in Islam) are complex and often ambivalent. The question of women's status relative to men in the society depicted in the biblical books, i.e. Iron Age and Hellenistic era Judea, remains a central and controversial issue. The Genesis creation accounts have been used to deprecate women on the authority of the Bible: Jews and Christians, throughout their history, have used the story of Adam and Eve to justify the inferior status for women. Thus, Paul and other early Christians looked to the Adam and Eve story to put the blame for the Fall on Eve and derived from that the conclusion that women should not be allowed to hold positions of authority or to teach. ==Creation narratives== The creation of Adam and Eve is narrated from somewhat different perspectives in and . The Genesis 1 narration declares the purpose of God, antedating the creation of the sexes.〔Starr, L. A. ''The Bible Status of Woman.'' New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1926〕 It has been called the "non-subordinating" view of woman.〔Stagg, Evelyn and Frank. ''Woman in the World of Jesus.'' Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1978〕 God gave the human pair joint responsibility and "rulership" over his creation. reaffirms that perspective and has been described as interpretative of that decree of God's initial purpose.〔 The narrative has been called the "subordinating view" of woman for two reasons: man is created first, and woman is created out of man.〔 "…for Adam there was not found an help meet for him." "…no suitable helper (kenegdo ) was found" (NIV). The word translated "suitable" ''(kenegdo)'' means "face to face" and denotes equality and adequacy.〔Nicole, Roger. "Biblical Egalitarianism and the Inerrancy of Scripture." ''Priscilla Papers,'' Vol. 20, No. 2. Spring 2006〕 Woman for centuries has been instructed to be an ''"helpmeet"'' for her husband. However, any text search of both Old and New Testaments (every translation) will demonstrate that the noun "helpmeet" does not appear anywhere in the Bible. It has become a distorted contraction of the two KJV words, the noun "help" and the adverb "meet," the latter being Shakespearian English for "corresponding to" or "suitable," a phenomenon that has been corrected in all later translations.〔From misunderstanding of the phrase an help meet for him, ''a helper suitable for him (Adam), in Genesis 2:18, referring to Eve''. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2003.〕 Although the passage is often cited as biblical evidence that subordination represents God’s will for women, Theologian Roger Nicole disagrees. He believes women's place in the home, in society, and in the church is not an issue that can be conclusively determined by a few apparently restrictive passages. He writes that the starting point must be at the creation of humanity, as Jesus himself exemplified by quoting and in response to a question by the Pharisees. 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Women in the Hebrew Bible」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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