![]() The other possible meaning points to an actual divine impregnation. In her naiveté, the causal relationship between sexual intercourse, conception and birth may have eluded the first mother, and so she ascribed the birth of her first child to God. Īnd yet, Eve might literally have meant that YHWH was the father. In keeping with the verse’s opening, that Adam “knew his wife” in the proverbial biblical sense, classic rabbinic sources interpret the phrase to be an expression of her thanksgiving to YHWH for allowing her to conceive. Why does Eve refer to her infant as a “man” ? Would it not have been more natural to refer to him as בן “son”? Even stranger is her claim that she produced this man “with YHWH.” Gen 4:1 And the man knew Eve, his woman, and she conceived and bore Cain, and she said: “I have gotten (or “created”) a man with YHWH.”
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