Document Type : Research Paper
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1 phd women study student woman and family faculty religions and denominations university Iran
2 women's studies, Department- Faculty of Social and economic sciences-Alzahra univeristy
3 PhD in cultural policy Bagheral Uloom University of Iran
Abstract
This article(Comparison of the two narratives of the Old Testament and the Qur'an about the temptation of Adam and Job (pbuh) by their wives and its representation in Christian and Islamic visual arts) compares the two narratives of the Old Testament and the Qur'an concerning the temptation of Adam and Job (PBUH) by their wives and its representation in Christian and Islamic visual arts. The comparison of the how of deception and temptation of the two mentioned prophets by their wives that is, Eve's lack of patience towards the sanctity of eating the forbidden fruit and Rahma's lack of patience towards divine trials and their reflection in the visual arts of two Christian and Islamic cultures in the first-hand sources, is of the goals of this study. This is a comparative study and data collection has been done by exploring library documents and works and art treasures. Although in the text of the Holy Qur'an, not only is the fault of the temptation of Adam and Job not on the shoulders of their wives, but there are very clear interpretations that clearly reject this accusation, but on the other hand, some of the covenantal stories asserted the mediation of Eve for the temptation of Adam and also in Islamic hadith and commentary sources we can see traces of attributing some sins to Job's wife. However, the issue of the representation of Adam's temptation by Eve and Job's blaming by his wife Rahma is clearly evident and frequent in Christian art, but this is not the case in Islamic paintings. Regarding Adam's temptation by Eve and its consequences, such as their expulsion from heaven, Islamic paintings do not explicitly blamed Eve and sometimes they have given her equal dignity with Adam, and in the paintings related to the story of Job, no sign is found indicating the temptation of this Prophet made by his wife or reprimanding him by her.
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