Re: Adam and Eve - myth?

William Hamilton wrote:
>
> On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 04:01 PM, Darryl Maddox wrote:
>
> > I have a question. If Eve at of the apple first why does it say sin
> > entered the world by one man? There may be an obvious answer to this
> > but I don't know it and this seemed like a reasonable time to ask.
> >
> >
> I believe it has to do with Adam's role as head of the household. Adam
> is blamed for letting his wife sin, and for participating in the sin,
> rather than protecting her from it..........................

        Genesis 2 however says nothing about the man being the head of the household.
Any idea of subordination of wife to husband only comes into the story after they've
eaten of the fruit (which is not, BTW, said to be an apple). It would stay closer to
the text to say that the command not to eat of the tree of knowledge was given to the
man (2:17) before the woman is created.

                                                Shalom,
                                                George

George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Thu Dec 18 19:09:45 2003