Cheryl Schatz

gengwall said:

Their proper name was not “Human”. Their categorical name was “human” just as the catagorical name of deer is “deer”. Now, you can give a specific deer the proper name “deer” just as ha’adam (the person) ‘adam (Adam) was given the proper name “‘adam”. But Eve was simply an instance of the class ‘adam, not a specific woman called “‘adam”.

I agree that “adam” was the class but not the “name” that God called the woman. When God is specifically talking to the woman, the Bible never calls her “adam” but “the woman”. She is called this even before Adam affirms her identification with himself as flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone. God said that He created “the woman” who was “(hu)man”.

I have lots more comments to come throughout today as I respond to Susanna’s comments posted on the original article on the topic of “head”.