1. Eve is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.
15 Facts About Eve
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Eve decides to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil after she hears the serpent's argument that it would not kill her but bring her benefits.
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Eve is found in the Genesis 3 expulsion from Eden narrative which is characterized as a parable or "wisdom tale" in the wisdom tradition.
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Eve is sentenced to a life of sorrow and travail in childbirth, and to be under the power of her husband.
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Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel, the first a tiller of the ground, the second a keeper of sheep.
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Genesis 5:4 affirms that Eve had sons and daughters beyond just Cain, Abel, and Seth.
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The traditional Jewish belief is that Eve is buried in the Cave of Machpelah.
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Finally, the gravest evils attributed to Eve appear in Genesis Rabbah 17:8:.
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Eve's reasoning was that, because sin lies in the soul and not the body and because he understood reproductive intercourse to comprise a material contribution from the female and a spiritual contribution from the male, then original sin could not be based upon the transgressions of Eve.
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Eve was compared with the Greco-Roman myth of Pandora who was responsible for bringing evil into the world.
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Eve's being taken from his side implies not only her secondary role in the conjugal state, but emphasizes the intimate union between husband and wife, and the dependence of her to him.
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In Christian tradition, Eve is a prefigurement of the Virgin Mary who is sometimes called "the Second Eve".
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In Gnosticism, Eve is often seen as the embodiment of the supreme feminine principle, called Barbelo.
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Eve is equated with the light-maiden of Sophia, creator of the word of God, the thygater tou photos or simply the Virgin Maiden, Parthenos.
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Eve is not blamed for enticing Adam to eat the forbidden fruit.