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elishabenabuya@nerdculture.de Husband & Grandpa. Not a scholar. I was a religious Jew. Now I just enjoy the OT/Rabbinical texts as literature. No pointless DMs.

Oct 2, 2021, 9 tweets

(Due to a holiday, I didn't get to post much about Gen 1-6, so here's a late thread about Adam's WIVES.)

Because of contradicting narratives in the Torah-anthology, legends were invented.

The result is more entertaining than the myths themselves.

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First up, we have Lilith. Because Gen-1 says man and woman were created at the same time, and Gen-2 changed that, we get a story about a mate who declared she was equal, wanted to be on top during coitus, so Adam hated her, and God disposed of her:

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Next, to answer why Adam had to sleep while God made a women, we have the story of Adam being grossed out when he watched God making one, all that blood and organs, and wouldn't touch her

So God got rid of her!

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So before God made Eve, he noticed that Adam was lonely, so he made animals and Adam boned them all, but wasn't satisfied, according to one legend!

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So new we get to Eve. Gen-1 says that he made him/them as male/female, which could mean conjoined twins. So when God removed Adam's side, he was splitting them apart.

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Another interpretation is that Adam being male and female was really a hermaphrodite. And that would make Eve a hermaphrodite as well, I suppose.

Which gives new meaning to "It's Adam and Eve, not "Adam and Steve!"

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Please keep in mind that there is a lot of sexual tension and humor in Gen-3, and that brings us to what was going on with the serpent, who was cursed to become a living phallus?

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I bring that up because it was Adam who was evicted from the garden, and it was Adam who would eventually die.

Not Eve.

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The end.

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