Eve. Eve is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible and in the Quran.
   According to the origin story of the Abrahamic religions, she was the first woman. Eve is known also as Adam's wife.
   According to the second chapter of Genesis, Eve was created by God by taking her from the rib of Adam, to be Adam's companion. She succumbs to the serpent's temptation to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
   She shares the fruit with Adam, and as a result the first humans are expelled from the Garden of Eden. Christian churches differ on how they view both Adam and Eve's disobedience to God, and to the consequences that those actions had on the rest of humanity.
   Christian and Jewish teachings sometimes hold Adam and Eve to a different level of responsibility for the fall, although Islamic teaching holds both equally responsible. Along with Adam, the Catholic Church by ancient tradition recognizes Eve as a saint. The traditional liturgical feast of Saints Adam and Eve has been celebrated on 24 December since the Middle Ages in many European nations, including Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, and the Scandinavian nations. It has been suggested that the name Kheba may derive from Kubau, a woman who was the first ruler of the Third Dynasty of Kish. The goddess Asherah, wife of El, mother of the elohim from the first millennium BCE was given the title
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