pinklight

It identifies how she was made and why she was made (not good for man to be alone and to make a one flesh union).

We already know how she was made and why she was made from vv 18, 20, 21, 22 & 24.

To simply diminish the significance of naming the woman, reduces the very words of the passage and there significance.

I not diminishing the significance behind v23. The significance to you is that Adam adds to her identification that was already given in v21. What’s the addition?

If she had not been made in this precise way, and named in this way she would have no identity of ‘woman’ since her identity is based around her creation from the ‘man’.

The significance behind v23 is that the human is now described as being male. But the human was already a male in v22. So nothing changes still and no additions to her identity.

Where as man (’adam’) finds it’s identity in the ground from which he was made (ha’adam) and to which he returns after the fall.

Serious, Mark??