Eve As Hero

Eve 
Paula Kirby digs into the bible as an anti-feminist text; Maud Newton defends Eve:

Really, who could blame Eve for eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil when she just wanted to be wise? I suppose walking naked with the Lord and Adam, surrounded by plants and animals, was pretty idyllic, but let’s be real. One of her companions was omniscient and omnipotent, and had created the whole world in a week. Why should she have been fulfilled playing the naïf every single day, for her entire life? 

(Image from The Book Of Genesis Illustrated By R. Crumb)