I have some issues re: Genesis.
1) How could there have been daylight (and vegetation / trees) before the creation of the Sun and Moon?
2) Names: Adam and Eve. Are we really to believe the first ever human being was named the contemporary name of Adam?
3) According to scripture, Cain and Able took unto them "wives from the daughters of men". If A&E were the first people on earth, then where did the "daughters of men" come from?
- this is where the Hebrew Israelite interpretation that Adam and Eve were not the first comes from. How they see it, when God put the breath of Life into Adam, this wasn't the creation of the first human being. But the first human being to be Uplifted with the spirit of God ie Life. They believe Adam (or Adam and Eve) represent the first of 'God's people'
3.5) If you don't subscribe to the above theory. Then how would you explain the implied incest of Genesis?
4) What do ones think about Lilith?
- the way a Sister described this to me was you can tell the Bible was written by a misogynistic male as Lillith, Adams first wife was decribed as a female Demon (from the land of Demons outside the Garden of Eden) because of her refusal to become his SUBservient She was punished for this and replaced by Eve - subserviant to Adam. After all, the man is the superior to the woman within the household according to the Bible.......
5) In ALL depictions throughout history, Adam and Eve both seem to possess a Navel. Thoughts?
- this may be a none issue seen as pictures were made secondary to the creation story. But it serves as an interesting point within the subconscience of Biblical painters and sculptors.
6) God or Gods? "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." The original Hebrew word usually translated as "God" here is elohim, which is actually the plural form. Literally, this verse reads, "in the beginning, the GODS created the heavens and the earth."
- This is one of several places in the Bible where God is referred to in the plural. Reference is also made of the 'Queen of Heaven" (Jeremiah 7:18 and Jeremiah 44:17-25)
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Appendix 1
Lilith:
Lilith (Hebrew: ל;;י;;ל;;י;;ת;;;;; lilit, or lilith) is a Hebrew name for a figure in Jewish mythology, developed earliest in the Babylonian Talmud, who is generally thought to be in part derived from a class of female demons Lī;;lī;;ṯ;;u in Mesopotamian texts of Assyria and Babylonia.
Evidence in later Jewish materials is plentiful, but little information has been found relating to the original Akkadian and Babylonian view of these demons. The relevance of two sources previously used to connect the Jewish Lilith to an Akkadian Lilitu—the Gilgamesh appendix and the Arslan Tash amulets—are now both disputed by recent scholarship.[1] The two problematic sources are discussed below.[2]
The Hebrew term Lilith or "Lilit" (translated as "Night creatures", "night monster", "night hag", or "screech owl") first occurs in Isaiah 34:14, either singular or plural according to variations in the earliest manuscripts, though in a list of animals. In the Dead Sea Scrolls Songs of the Sage the term first occurs in a list of monsters. In Jewish magical inscriptions on bowls and amulets from the 6th century CE onwards, Lilith is identified as a female demon and the first visual depictions appear.
In Jewish folklore, from the 8th–10th century Alphabet of Ben Sira onwards, Lilith becomes Adam's first wife, who was created at the same time (Rosh Hashanah) and from the same earth as Adam. This contrasts with Eve, who was created from one of Adam's ribs. The legend was greatly developed during the Middle Ages, in the tradition of Aggadic midrashim, the Zohar, and Jewish mysticism.[3] In the 13th century writings of Rabbi Isaac ben Jacob ha-Cohen, for example, Lilith left Adam after she refused to become subservient to him and then would not return to the Garden of Eden after she mated with archangel Samael.[4] The resulting Lilith legend is still commonly used as source material in modern Western culture, literature, occultism, fantasy, and horror.
Appendix 2
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