Knowra Adam and Eve Adam and Eve Adam and Eve are the first man and woman in the biblical creation narrative, placed by God in the Garden of Eden. Their disobedience and expulsion shape accounts of human origins, sin, and mortality.
Book of Genesis : The first book of the Bible, recounting creation, early humanity, and the origins of Israel’s ancestors. Its opening chapters contain the creation and Eden narratives.
Fall of Man : The Christian doctrine that humanity’s disobedience in Eden introduced sin and its consequences into human life. It names the theological significance later Christianity assigns to their act.
Yahwist source : A proposed source of the Pentateuch, traditionally associated with the use of the name Yahweh for God. Scholars have often associated Genesis’s detailed Eden narrative with this source.
Lilith : A figure in later Jewish folklore, sometimes described as Adam’s first wife, absent from the Genesis creation narrative. Her later legend offers an alternative account of Adam’s partner, not the biblical one.
Eve : The woman in Genesis whom God creates as a companion for Adam and who eats the forbidden fruit. Her portrayal has shaped enduring debates about women, agency, and blame.
Garden of Eden : The garden in Genesis where God places Adam and Eve before their expulsion. It is the setting of their life before the fall.
Original Sin : In many Christian traditions, the inherited condition of sin associated with humanity’s first disobedience. Christian accounts connect Adam and Eve’s transgression to humanity’s shared sinful condition.
Jahwist creation narrative : The Genesis 2–3 account in which God forms the human, plants Eden, and creates the woman. It supplies the narrative sequence most closely associated with Adam and Eve.
Adam in Islam : The first human and a prophet in Islamic tradition, created by God and placed in a garden. Islamic scripture shares Adam’s creation story but does not pair him with Eve in the same narrative form.
Adam : The first human in Genesis, formed by God from the dust of the ground and placed in Eden. His creation from earth anchors interpretations of humanity’s relationship to land and mortality.
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