Zone1 Was Eve expelled from Eden, or did she leave with Adam?

Or it was either a fig or a pomegranate.

Fig
The Bible states in the book of Genesis that Adam and Eve had made their own fig leaf clothing: "And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles".[19] Rabbi Nehemiah Hayyun supports the idea that the fruit was a fig, as it was from fig leaves that Adam and Eve made garments for themselves after eating the fruit. "By that with which they were made low were they rectified."[20] Since the fig is a long-standing symbol of female sexuality, it enjoyed a run as a favorite understudy to the apple as the forbidden fruit during the Italian Renaissance, Michelangelo Buonarroti depicting it as such in his fresco on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.[21]

Pomegranate

Proponents of the theory that the Garden of Eden was located somewhere in what is now known as the Middle East suggest that the fruit was actually a pomegranate, as it is one of the earliest domesticated plants on the Eastern Mediterranean.[22] The association of the pomegranate with knowledge of the underworld as provided in the Ancient Greek legend of Persephone may also have given rise to an association with knowledge of the otherworld, tying-in with knowledge that is forbidden to mortals. It is also believed Hades offered Persephone a pomegranate to force her to stay with him in the underworld. Hades is the Greek god of the underworld and the Bible states that whoever eats the forbidden fruit shall die.
Adam didn't eat from the fruit.
 
It's not my fault you took a poor tack. I haven't made any accusations against Eve. That's all in you head. You are tilting at windmills.

So that's what this is all about? SMH. No one has slandered Eve.

The fall of man has nothing to do with that. You need a new rabbi.

Why lie in "defense" of your dogma?

Timothy 2:14 slanders Eve - in contradiction to God's judgement.
 
It's a creation myth borrowed from the Sumerian one. It shouldn't be taken literally. Let's not forget that there's over 2,400 years between Adam and when Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible. That's a lot of time around the campfires telling stories. Anyone who knows the game "Telephone" knows how that can lead to flaws.

There are multiple flaws in the story and throughout Genesis.
Examples:
1. If God is omniscient, how come God didn't know what Adam and Eve would do? Even more relevant is why God didn't know what Lucifer would do?
2. Genesis 1:26 26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness." It's not the first time Genesis has God talking to others using a plural first person pronoun. Genesis 3:22 and 11:7 do it too.

Did the Sumerians borrow it as well,
or it only works in one direction?

Creation is not the theme of Genesis,
rather the assumed common knowledge.
The conversation is with a specific people who know.

1. God told them they'd eat, didn't mention on what day.
2. Indeed, it was late in creation, Eve wasn't cursed, earth was.
 
According to Moses who wrote down the story 2400 years after it happened?

According to God.

Who after another 2,400 years caries His people
for all to see - the fulfillment of Moses' prophecy.
 
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