Reading an interesting book that theorizes the Old Testament has a mistranslation (and maybe not accidentally), and Eve was not made from Adam's rib, but his baculum.
The baculum is the penis bone; nearly all placental mammals, including other Great Apes, have 'em. Humans don't.
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The herding cultures responsible for the stories that would eventually become the Old Testament would have definitely noticed all the animals they dealt with had this bone, and they didn't. They would have also noticed men were born with a scar that women weren't.
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(Nearly) everyone is "born" with one scar: the belly button. But AMAB people also have the perineal raphe, a leftover of the urethra being closed in, which is far more distinguishable on infants.
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The perineal raphe extends from the anus through the perineum to the scrotum, and for nearly every non-human placental mammal, rests over where the baculum would be.
Furthermore, the Hebrew word translated as "rib," צֵלָע (tsela), also means "supporting joist" or "buttress."
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So maybe, the theory goes, a polite euphemism got mistranslated, not just to explain Eve, but the missing human baculum.
Interesting!
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This reminds me of how my school told the Kindergarteners that the Immaculate Conception was when Mary was told she would give birth to Jesus.
I don't even think I'M old enough to read this.
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why would / how could a catholic (I presume) school get that wrong tho?
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Can I get a name on this book? I was just having this conversation with a biblical scholar friend of mine and want to know more! 💚
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