“The Voice of Your Wife”: Why an Ancient Interpreter Chose to Voice Eve with a Testament

Abstract Eve’s Testament (Greek Life of Adam and Eve 15–30) contains an expansive first-person retelling the Eden narrative in which elder remembers her younger self calling to “with a loud voice” saying, “listen me!” She then admits that when she opened mouth, “the Devil was speaking,” able quickly persuade husband eat forbidden fruit. The unparalleled decision ancient author voice primordial woman with testament builds exegetically on textual problem Gen 3:17 where YHWH Elohim punishes man for “listening his wife” never spoke 2–3. provides missing Adam’s wife, through it, we learn how devil used get “cast out Paradise.”