Cheryl Schatz

Pinklight,

You said:

I feel like counting. And I like the text myself.

This is 6, count ‘em 6 additions to the Genesis text:

1Eve hadn’t even known that there was a “problem”.

2But the Serpent’s prejudiced question unsettles her.

3It knocks her back on her heels.

4And so the Serpent engages Eve in a reevaluation of her life on his terms.

5She begins to feel that God’s command, which Adam had shared with her has to be defended…

6Eve’s misquote reduces the lavish generosity of God’s word to the level of mere, perhaps grudging, permission…

Mighty fine counting there, pinklight!