Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Divine birth: Eve, fashioned from Adam’s rib

It was written in the Bible that it is not good for the man to be alone. So the Lord fashioned from Adam’s rib a companion by an innovative birthing method, as documented in the fresco of Michelangelo.

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
From Genesis 2:21-23

 

Birth of eve Birth of Eve
Creation of Eve
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Italy
Creation of Eve
Marble relief on the left pier of the façade of the cathedral Orvieto, Italy

 


 

George Dunea, MD, Editor-in-Chief

 

 

Highlighted in Frontispiece Fall 2012 – Volume 4, Issue 4

Fall 2012  |  Sections  |  Birth, Pregnancy, & Obstetrics

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