Eve

Eve in the Bible

Its name would mean “alive”; however, the absence in its name of the letter yod raises a serious problem of interpretation.

It is the woman of Adam, for which it was created from one of her coasts in order to be to him a help such as it is written in the Genèse (2:21). What makes of it the last creature creates by God. According to certain Jewish mystical legends, it succeeded Lilith. Lilith does not appear by name in the biblical text, its existence is an interpretation of the text saying that God created the man with his image, male and female (Génèse 1:27).

The history of Eve and Adam is told in the book of the Genèse, the first book of the Bible. Eve was tried by Na' hash, the Snake, which convinces it to eat fruit of the tree of the knowledge of the good and evil, which God had prohibited formally.

Eve in Islam

Eve is mentioned several times in the Coran. Its name is not quoted there, but it is indicated as being the wife of Adam. The Arab name of Eve is حواء ( Hawwâ' ) or Hawa or Haoua . The equivalent in Africa Noire is Hawa or Awa .

In Coran, Eve is not it responsible for expulsion out of the garden of Eden. Satan (the Snake according to the Genesis) convinces at the same time Eve and Adam to taste with the fruit of knowledge. Eve thus does not take only the responsibility for the exile. In addition, Eve was creates starting from a coast of Adam in the Moslem tradition.

Hawwa' gave the day to each childbirth with a boy and with a girl and it was confined forty times.

At the beginning of the 20th century, travellers mention the presence of a “Tombeau of Eve” to Djeddah. This archeological site was sealed in 1975 by the authorities anxious to prevent that the place does not become a site of prayer.

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