Eve - Würzburg, Germany
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N 49° 47.686 E 009° 55.759
32U E 566883 N 5516225
Located to the right side of the main entrance to the Marienkappele on the lower market square in Würzburg.
Waymark Code: WMHDDQ
Location: Bayern, Germany
Date Posted: 06/26/2013
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Construction on the the Marienkapelle began in 1377. In 1479 the work on the church was finally completed with the completion of the nearly 70 meter tower. In 1493, Tilman Riemenschneider, one of the most famous sculptors and woodcarvers of the period completed a pair of sandstone statues to be placed on the front exterior of the church. Titled Adam and Eve they remained in place until 1975 when they were replaced with exact replicas, the originals now be on exhibit in the Mainfränkisches Museum in the Fortress Marienberg. Eve is located high up on the right side of the entrance.
Regarding Eve: Eve was, according to Abrahamic religions, the first woman created by God.
In the Bible, Eve is Adam's wife. Her name occurs only four times; the first being Genesis 3:20: "And Adam called his wife's name ?awwah; because she was the mother of all living." In Vulgate she appears as "Hava" in the Old Testament, but "Eva" in the New Testament. The name may actually be derived from that of the Hurrian Goddess Kheba, who was shown in the Amarna Letters to be worshipped in Jerusalem during the Late Bronze Age. It has been suggested that the name Kheba may derive from Kubau, a woman who reigned as the first king of the Third Dynasty of Kish Another name, Asherah, in the first millennium BCE was Chawat, or Hawwah in Aramaic (Eve in English).
Eve was created in the Garden of Eden to be the wife of Adam. God decides that "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a companion fit for him." In Genesis 2:21–22 it states:
"And 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 God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man"
After her creation, Adam names his companion Woman, "because she was taken out of Man." "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."
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