《创世记》是《圣经》开篇的第一卷，讲述了上帝创世和古代以色列人始祖的故事。它既是古代犹太人历经千年积淀汇聚而成的犹太教和犹太文化的一部分，也是基督教认可的正典要籍，对西方宗教、文化、意识形态等诸领域产生着重要的影响。本论文从女性的视角对《创世记》进行深度的分析和挖掘，采用以点带面、逐层深入的方法，围绕《创世记》中的女性身份问题从女性人物形象出发，对整个《创世记》的故事框架和父权制叙事策略进行深入分析，同时挖掘在《创世记》父权制叙事模式之下隐藏着的不可否认的女性的历史地位和贡献，揭示《创世记》叙事中的性别意识和潜文本。本论文分为四章。第一章的主要目的是揭露《创世记》叙事中所渗透的男性中心的父权制叙事策略。《创世记》将其中的叙事以神“话”的方式表达出来，力图达到一种超验的真理认同感，但是难以掩盖的是其编修的斧凿痕迹，在神言的画外音背后隐约着的是人言的修辞；在历史化的背景上书写着的是服务于父权制意识形态的故事；几千年披着客观外衣的评论的内里是性别意识的真相。第二章聚焦于《创世记》前三章的创世故事，分析了伊甸园故事中树、蛇、女人等的象征和隐喻，以及创世故事中所隐含的二元对立的最初形态，指出《圣经》通过创世故事不但创造了万物，也创造了人与自然、男人与女人之间的等级关系和秩序。创世故事还将违反神意的罪恶根源直指向女人以及女神所代表的对性与生育的崇拜。同时，通过罪与罚的逻辑关系将父权制中男尊女卑的意识形态与现实生活中的生死、生育、蛇的爬行等客观现象打包在一起溯因于伊甸园的女人和她吃禁果的行为。第三章和第四章的研究对象主要是《创世记》从第12章到结尾的以色列先祖的故事。第三章主要讨论《创世记》中女人的身份。从母亲、妻子、女儿、异族女人等社会身份的角度揭露了《创世记》叙事对女人身份的规定。成为母亲是每一个女性的目标，然而生育这个女人的天职在《创世记》叙述中却成为上帝对女人的奖惩措施，女人能否生育取决于她的“德行”，取决于上帝是否打开她的子宫。作为妻子，她的德行受丈夫的管辖，并随时为了丈夫的利益做出牺牲；女儿是父亲的财产，通过未来丈夫与父亲的交易成为妻子，同时，她要谨守自己的生活空间，一旦逾越，就会导致严重的后果，付出巨大的代价。第四章讨论的是《创世记》叙事中关于女性的潜文本。在父权制的主流叙事框架下，仍可见女人们为维护自己的权力和利益所作的种种努力与斗争。从文本的缝隙中，我们可以窥见她们的行动，听到她们的声音，感受到她们自己对神的理解和对宗教信仰的贡献。在父权制的压迫下，她们的行为是隐蔽的、扭曲的；她们的声音是含混的、多重的；她们的宗教态度和认识是不为重视和认可的，但是她们在历史和神学上的价值和贡献却是无法被掩盖和抹去的。在质疑了传统主流批评的终极意义之后，在用女性的角度和方式来阅读、挖掘和评论《创世记》文本中性别主义和父权意识形态的基础上，笔者试图建构一个多元的、多层面的阅读体验，展示用女性的和不止关乎神学信仰的方式来阅读《创世记》的可能性。

The book of Genesis is the very first part of the Holy Bible, which tells the stories about God’s creation of the universe and the early patriarchs of ancient Israelites. It is not only an important part of Judaism scripture and one of the foundations of Hebrew culture, but also the canonical part of Christianity, exerting significant influence on western religion, culture, and ideology as well as other social and ideological scopes. This dissertation is to focus on the book of Genesis, making a profound and analytical research from the perspective of a woman, in the purpose of revealing the sexual ideology and sub-texts about women in Genesis narrative as well as searching for the undeniable historical status of ancient Israelite women and the contribution of them under the patriarchal social framework.This dissertation is divided into four chapters. The first chapter examines the patriarchal narrative strategy in the book of Genesis. The narration in Genesis is under the name of the God, thus to achieve a transcendental truth claim from the mythical and legendary stories. However, what’s behind the words of God is the rhetorical devises of human languages; what’s upon the historicized background are the stories told by male human authors; and what’s presented in the seemingly traditional and objective criticism throughout thousands of years is the truth of sexual discrimination.The second chapter focuses on the creation stories in the first three chapters of Genesis. It analyses in the first place the metaphorical meanings of forbidden tree, snake and woman in Genesis, and other key elements in creation stories. After that, the original form of binary opposition is revealed, on which basis, the chapter points out that the creation story is not only about the creation of the universe, but also a creation of hierarchy and order between human beings and nature as well as man and woman. The creation story traces the origin of human violation of God’s will to woman and the pagan worship of goddess’ sexuality and fertility. At the same time, a crime and punishment logic which involves God’s words helps to explain the objective existence of death, women’s giving birth to babies and the crawling of the snake. This in turn adds more justification to woman’s inferiority. The third and fourth chapters target on the early patriarch stories of ancient Israel from the 12th chapter of Genesis onwards. Chapter Three mainly discusses the social identity of women including mother, wife, daughter and women of pagan belief. The book of Genesis regulates the social functions and identities of women via its narrative: being a mother is the common wish of every woman, but whether a wife can give birth to a son depends on her merit, and more importantly, on God’s will; as a wife, she must obey her husband and to sacrifice herself for her husband’s interest and needs at any time; as a daughter, she is the private property of her father, and becomes a wife through the father’s exchange and business-like negotiation with the future husband; a daughter should be strictly confined to her living space, any attempt and action of stepping beyond leads to disastrous end. In the fourth chapter, this dissertation reveals the sub-texts about women. Though under the mainstream patriarchal narrative framework, there are still traces to see the efforts women made to withhold their own power and interest, some are even desperate. From the fissures and gaps of the text, we can have a glimpse of their action, catch a sound of their voice, hear their understanding of the divine and witness their special contribution to theology. Still, under the pressure of the patriarchy, their actions are covert and even distorted, their voices are ambiguous and bring forth multiple echoes, and their religious attitude and understanding are not recognized and taken seriously, but their contribution and value in history and theology can never be wiped out.After a questioning of the ultimate meanings of traditional mainstream interpretation of the book of Genesis, this dissertation is going to construct a multiple and multi-layered reading of it from a woman’s perspective, to reveal the sexual politics and patriarchal ideology of the book of Genesis and to show the possibility of reading from other perspectives.