Eve
Eve | |
|---|---|
Eve (1889) by Pantaleon Szyndler | |
| Era | Edenic and Antediluvian |
| Spouse | Adam[a] |
| Children | Cain, Abel, Seth, other unnamed sons and daughters[b] |
| The Matriarch | |
| Born | Garden of Eden |
| Venerated in | |
| Feast | 24 December |
Eve[c] is a figure from the Book of Genesis (ספר בראשית) in the Hebrew Bible. According to the origin story[1] of the Abrahamic religions, she was the first woman to be created by God. Eve is known also as Adam's wife.
Her name means "living one" or "source of life".[2] The name has been compared to that of the Hurrian goddess Ḫepat, who was worshipped in Jerusalem during the Late Bronze Age.[3][4] It has been suggested that the Hebrew name Eve (חַוָּה) bears resemblance[5] to an Aramaic word for "snake" (Old Aramaic language חוה; Aramaic חִוְיָא). The origin for this etymological hypothesis is the rabbinic pun present in Genesis Rabbah 20:11 ( c. 300-500 CE), utilizing the similarity between Heb. Ḥawwāh and Aram. ḥiwyāʾ. Notwithstanding its rabbinic ideological usage, scholars like Julius Wellhausen and Theodor Nöldeke argued for its etymological relevance.[6]
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- ^ Womack 2005, p. 81, "Creation myths are symbolic stories describing how the universe and its inhabitants came to be. Creation myths develop through oral traditions and therefore typically have multiple versions."
- ^ American Heritage Dictionary
- ^ The Weidner "Chronicle" mentioning Kubaba from A. K. Grayson, Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles (1975)
- ^ Munn, Mark (2004). "Kybele as Kubaba in a Lydo-Phrygian Context": Emory University cross-cultural conference "Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbors in Central Anatolia" (Abstracts)
- ^ Saul Olyan, Asherah (1988), pp. 70–71, contested by O. Keel
- ^ Kosior, Wojciech (2018). "A Tale of Two Sisters: The Image of Eve in Early Rabbinic Literature and Its Influence on the Portrayal of Lilith in the Alphabet of Ben Sira". Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues (32): 112–130. doi:10.2979/nashim.32.1.10. S2CID 166142604. Archived from the original on 2023-01-06. Retrieved 2019-01-27.