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In most Semitic languages, ‘Eve’ means ‘snake’ or even ‘female snake’. The name of our ancestral biblical mother hides an archaic animist myth, according to which snakes are not our enemies, but our ancestors.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
Thus, it is quite reasonable within a biblical context to see Eve as a type of Pandora fig- ure,28 who is to be commended for bringing sex into this world.
Marc Zvi Brettler PhD • How to Read the Bible
Genesis begins, of course, with a story of creation and curiosity. The first woman, Eve, wants to partake of the one tree forbidden to her, representing the knowledge from which she and Adam are prohibited. Curious to know good and evil, she eats—that is, she reaches for, grasps, tugs, acquires, ingests, and consumes—a single piece of fruit from th
... See morePerry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
Eve didn’t come from Adam’s feet, to get walked on. She didn’t come from his head, to top him. She came from his side to be his equal, from under his arm to enjoy his protection, from near his heart to experience his love.
Stephen M. Miller • 100 Tough Questions about God and the Bible
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Eve originally had no desire to eat the fruit from the forbidden tree—until the serpent modeled it. The serpent suggested a desire. That’s what models do. Suddenly, a fruit that had not aroused any particular desire became the most desirable fruit in the universe.
Luke Burgis • Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
The moral drama here gets to the core of human existence. Notice that the passage says that Eve saw the fruit as “desirable for gaining wisdom.” Satan was not just selling Eve the best fruit in the garden, but something more fundamentally appealing. He was telling Eve that if she ate the fruit, she would be independently wise. The promise was auton
... See morePaul David Tripp • Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands
by letting Eve and Adam cast themselves out of Eden without any help at all from him, and really none from the serpent either—to put sin and salvation, love and death in our own hands, as our own, strictly human business, our responsibility—now
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
by letting Eve and Adam cast themselves out of Eden without any help at all from him, and really none from the serpent either—to put sin and salvation, love and death in our own hands, as our own, strictly human business, our responsibility—now