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Where are you getting that? Gn 1 has "male and female he created them" with no further detail, and the Gn 2 story has Eve being created from Adam's rib, rather
by blahedo 12y ago
Where are you getting that? Gn 1 has "male and female he created them" with no further detail, and the Gn 2 story has Eve being created from Adam's rib, rather different from the double-body creation story.
- ars 12y agoThe Talmud Eruvin 18a elucidates on this. Think about it - first it says he created both male and female, yet apparently there is just a single male. And only later does a female appear. What actually happened is that he created male and female as a joint being, and only later did he separate them. The word "Rib" is a mistranslation, the correct translation is "Side". (Rib doesn't make any sense anyway, Male and Female have the same number of ribs.)