Sublime

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.

Goddess (here in reduced form as the serpent’s messenger, Eve) testified to the right of Man to come to the knowledge of the now forbidden Light.

it’s important to remember that in the book of Genesis, Eve is called “Eve” only once; she is called “woman” eleven times.

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

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