Michael Kruse

“You also asked if historical figures ever make this “obvious†conclusion that animals came after Adam. Yes. The Septuagint which is the Greek translation….”

This isn’t exactly what I was getting at. If my teacher/curiculum analogy is correct this still doesn’t resolve the problem. What I was referring to was commentators who were applying the 2:19 passage in some way that would indicate what they understood the passage to mean. I am trying to established the tradition for how the passage was understood by Jewish scholars and early Church leaders.