Infamous Eve, A History by May Sinclair

Author:May Sinclair [Sinclair, May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-08-17T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

WHICH EVE IS IT, STUPID OR EVIL? “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, ...” 1

Many modern western people know the names of the biblical couple Eve and Adam, but the cause and effect of Eve eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge is unclear to them. That is not surprizing since, for the past three thousand years, there has been an abundance of opinions proposed by a myriad of people. Countless times the story has been translated, interpreted, over-written, and re-written, while ever generating volumes of commentary by those undeniably affected by the attitudes of their own time and place.

While writing this book I used eleven English translations of the Book of Genesis that were completed between 1611 and 1998 CE. When God is described to be shaping, forming, or fashioning Adam, there was only one word that was clearly employed by a vast majority of the male translators__man. Though interestingly enough, while Adam is called either a human or earthling that becomes a creature, living being, person, soul, or creature of flesh by those numerous translators, the part that describes God shaping, fashioning, building, building-up, or making Eve decidedly reflects our ever changing attitudes about prehistory and history.

Is the biblical creation story about the loss of innocence, based on the notion that gaining independence ruins complete acceptance of another’s edicts, even those allowing for innocence in the first place? Is the paradisiacal story about how man loves woman, yet needs to consider her less intelligent so he feels superior__ be her protector__the savior? Did God punish man by introducing the woman Eve into paradise, triggering the urge that brought with it many sexual psychological issues? Perhaps it is about the hazards of sexuality with Eve being created in the likeness of the Greek’s Pandora whose curiosity gained sexual pleasure and all the ills of the world. Eve might represent Adam’s fear of losing innocence to gain independence, or maybe she revealed his fear of uncontrollable sexuality. Whatever she did portray, there is a good chance Eve was not Adam’s lesser half but actually his instructor.

TENTH-SEVENTH CENTURIES BCE The entire second creation doublet is said to have been written by “J”, a court historian for King Solomon around 900 BCE, yet it is doubtless Solomon worshipped Yahweh along with His Asherah.

In the second part of the biblical creation story found in modern Bibles God has planted no flora on the earth because there was yet no rain or anyone to farm it, but taking dust of the ground and breathing into it the breath of life, God made man a living person. Then to the east God planted a garden in Eden where He placed man. Once man was there God planted a myriad of trees, beautiful and fruit bearing, as well as The Tree of Life and The Tree of Knowledge, right in the center of the garden.

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