Gallery Five Everywoman Eve

In the final chapter the reader is provided with a space to reflect on their various encounters with Eve’s afterlives throughout the book. Here they have the opportunity to think anew about the image of the Bible’s first woman, and, as they depart from the book, to challenge the dominant traditional framing of Eve as femme fatale. Instead the book encourages the reader to consider a more complex figure of Eve the Everywoman: transgressor, knowledge bearer and bringer of life.