History of Creation myth/Talk

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->"adam" - man OR humanity in general
->the word translated as "sleep" also means "stop, pause, delay"
->the word translated as "rib" (he pronounced it something like tseyla or tseila, I'm not sure of the spelling) actually has a primary meaning of "strength" and only the seventh or so meaning is "rib".
->"hava" or "hawa" (translated as Eve) meaning the ability to procreate.

*"adam" - man OR humanity in general
*the word translated as "sleep" also means "stop, pause, delay"
*the word translated as "rib" (he pronounced it something like tseyla or tseila, I'm not sure of the spelling) actually has a primary meaning of "strength" and only the seventh or so meaning is "rib".
*"hava" or "hawa" (translated as Eve) meaning the ability to procreate.

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:I honestly have no idea. However, for one thing, Genesis was written in Hebrew, not Syriac. I also think it somewhat unlikely that traditional understandings going back millenia are wrong, but I suppose they could be. -- SJK

I was just mentioning that he knew Syriac as a sidenote. The translation was from Hebrew. --KamikazeArchon

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