Women in the Bible

 Eve

Genesis 2-3; 4:1-2; 2 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Timothy 2:13-14

• Genesis 2:18-23 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.”…So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “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 3:20 The man named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all living.

• 2 Corinthians 11:3 But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by its cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

• “In Pain and Sorrow: Childbirth, Incarnation, and the Suffering of Women” by Colleen Carpenter Cullinan from CrossCurrents

• “Sexual Desire? Eve, Genesis 3:16, and תשןקה” by Joel N. Lohr 

• “Eve and Adam: Genesis 2-3 Reread” by Phyllis Trible 

• “Creation According to Eve: Beyond Genesis 3” by Ilana Pardes

• “Women’s Ordination Begins in Genesis 1-3” by Scot McKnight

• “To Help or Not to Help, that is Not the Question: Gen. 2:18, Woman as Man’s ‘Helper,’ and Issues in Translation” by Sarah J. O’Connor

• “Eve” by Carol Meyers

• “Eve and Adam: Genesis 2-3 Reread” by Phyllis Trible

• “Creation According to Eve: Beyond Genesis 3” by Ilana Pardes

• Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context by Carol Meyers (2013)

• “Adam, Eve, and That Damned Snake” by Nadia Bolz-Weber

• "Adam" by Dexter Callender

• "Adam/Adamah" by Samuel Thomas

Books

• Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry by Anne Lapidus Lerner (2007) 

• Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context by Carol Meyers (2013)

• “A Love Story Gone Awry” (Ch.4) in God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality by Phyllis Trible (1978)

• “Eve and Adam: Genesis 2-3 Reread” by Phyllis Trible in Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion, edited by Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow (1992)

*Also mentioned in the Apocrypha (see Apocryphal Women)