"Drop down dew ye heavens above
and let the clouds rain the Just One."
Isaiah 45: 8
"This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
this one shall be called Woman,
for out of Man this one was taken."
Genesis 2: 23
Genesis presents Eve as the first woman created by God. It may be more accurate to say that she is the first female with an identity and a name in the recorded history of both Jews and Christians. As wife of the first man, Adam, she gave birth to three sons--Cain, Abel, and Seth--somewhere outside the Garden of Eden. Through the pain of giving birth and loss of both Abel and Cain, Eve experienced a dimension of being human which she had not known in the Garden. The Genesis genealogy lists other sons born to Adam--and therefore to Eve--and states that there were also daughters of whom not a single memory remains. As scholars struggle to separate fact from mythology and interpretation in the narrative of Eve, she as original woman continues to be a symbol of both the domination and the liberation of her gender (Woman Word by Miriam Therese Winter).
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