Discrimination against homosexuals carried into the 21st century

genesis 2, yes. "man" and "woman" are actually the same root, ish, and "woman" has the feminine ending, so ishah. what's the question? as a side note, because it's interesting, "eve" is chavah, the causative form of chayim, "life."

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that does not seem to be the purpose of the text.

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adam - man, or more appropriately "mankind."you're conflating two stories, i think. one in genesis 2, one in genesis 3. genesis 2 was written to give the hebrew marriage custom a traditional origin. genesis 3 was written to explain things like agriculture, pain in childbirth, snakes, etc.if you are refering the name in genesis 2, "woman," "man" as a grammatically equall name. ish - man, or more appropriately, "male."
ishah - woman, or "female."the bit about "called her woman, because she came from man" is simply establishing the origin of the grammatical relation between the masculine and feminine genders in the hebrew language. it's by coincidence that "man" and "woman" have three of the same letters in english, but the relationship is much more obvious in hebrew.adam gives his wife a proper name only after the curse. the name he gives here is: chavah - "causes life." this is part of god's curse. it was probably written to explain the origin of patriarchal society, and the ancient hebrews often deeply misogynistic attitudes. they were equal before that point. each guilty party was given different curses. eve took charge and led her husband astray -- so her curse is to follow him. adam violate god's garden -- so he has to make his own. and the serpent spoke in contradiction to god -- so he has to eat dirt.anyhow. really, to use the text as justification is circular, since the text was written to explain practices contemporary to the authors. all people are saying by quoting the bible as justification on this issue is "let's live in ancient israel."Edited by arachnophilia, : No reason given.

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no, just a misreading. this is not the topic for this thread. perhaps you'd like to carry on elsewhere?

crash, i think your sarcasm detector is broken.

you ever tell someone a joke, but they don't laugh? it's pretty clear they don't get it, but they always try to pretend like the joke just wasn't funny afterwards.yeah.

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