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[[Image:Pascha.jpg|150px|thumb|[[Christ]] is depicted raising Adam and Eve from the grave in this [[icon]] of the [[Resurrection]].]]
'''Adam and Eve''' were, according to the [[Book of Genesis]], the first-created man and woman. In the [[Septuagint]] (though not in liturgical texts or [[icons]]), Adam's wife is identified with the name '''[[Hesperus,_Zoe,_Cyriacus,_and_Theodulus|Zoe''' ]] ("life").
The story of the [[Fall of Man]] is the primary context in which Adam and Eve are remembered, and the suffering which they undergo as a result of having [[sin]]ned against God by eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil they share together. Adam is traditionally identified as the one ultimately responsible for the introduction of sin into humanity, but in the [[creation]] accounts of Genesis, both Adam and Eve are listed as having been created without any sense of subordination of one to the other. Thus, Adam's place is not as a lord over Eve, but rather as the representative of the family. As such, he is her equal, but the introduction of human sin is placed at his feet.