Paradise Regained A New Golden Age for Women

• Published in: Sanctifying Misandry pp. 125 - 145
• Main Authors: Young, Katherine K, Nathanson, Paul
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Montreal MQUP 01.01.2010; McGill-Queen's University Press
• Subjects: Afterlife; Anthropology; Applied anthropology; Arts; Behavioral sciences; Children; Cultural anthropology; Doctrinal theology; Eschatology; Ethnography; Ethnology; Feminism; Feminist literary theory; Folk beliefs; Folk culture; Folkloristics; Gender studies; Human populations; Jewish studies; Judaism; Literary studies; Literary theory; Literature; Magic; Men; Mothers; Paradise; Persons; Population studies; Practical theology; Psychology of religion; Religion; Religious studies; Social sciences; Spiritual leaders; Systematic theology; Theology; Witchcraft; Witches; Women
• ISBN: 0773536159; 9780773536159
• DOI: 10.1515/9780773576834-007

Act 3 of the biblical drama is about returning from exile to paradise, from sin to grace, on both the personal and the collective levels. Part of the story takes place within time, or history: after expulsion from Eden but before inauguration of the Messianic Age or coming in fullness of the Kingdom of God¹ (which amount to much the same thing). For Jews, scripture concludes with an affirmation of hope in collective return to the Promised Land.² But tradition indicates that this will consist of more than a mere return from political exile and the resumption of business as