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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’.

Hi Mark,
I also have to add that not only does 1:22 already tell us she was taken from the human, but because “woman” in v22 means “female” therefore we can gather that she came from the male if we were to combine 2:22 with Gen 1:27b. And so she has been given identity by the text without Adam’s words in v23. Adam’s words aren’t about the woman’s identity anyway but rather they are about his own experience of her. To say that she would have no identity as “woman” without Adam’s words is only pushing the idea that Adam had to name her in order for her to even have an identity.