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Academic Claims God Made Eve With Adam's Penis
Christians have reacted with fury after a religious academic suggested Eve was not made from Adam’s rib, but was instead formed using his penis!
The theory, put forward by revered biblical professor Ziony Zevit, suggests God made Eve from Adam’s baculum, or penis bone.
Professor Zevit said this explains why man has no baculum, unlike most mammals, and why men don’t have an uneven number of ribs compared to women.
The word ‘tzela’ or ‘tsela’ appears a number of times and in different contexts in the Old Testament, and Professor Zevit said this is what led translators astray.
Stained glass : Adam & Eve
He claims that the word was used for any part of anatomy protruding from the body, including feet, arms and penis.
“Of these appendages, the only one lacking a bone is the penis,” he said.
Elsewhere, he added that Genesis 2:21, in which God closes the flesh beneath the ‘tsela’, refers to the flesh that exists on the underside of the penis.
However, Zevit’s theories have come in for criticism.
According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, it is clear that the Genesis passage refers to something that Adam has many of, for example, which more closely fits the idea that Eve was made from a rib rather than a baculum.
In addition, the plural of ‘tzela’ – ‘tzlaot’ – would be a collective noun applicable for hands, feet and penises, which does not exist.
Similar rib stories appear in other ancient religions, such as in Sumer.
But the most significant counter argument is the fact that ‘tzela’ is still used in post-biblical Hebrew to mean ‘rib’.
A review of Professor Zevit’s book was recently published in The Biblical Archaeological Review magazine.
One reader, Rev Randall L Krabill, wrote: “How does Ziony Zevit’s article have anything to do with Biblical archaeology?
“I have never purchased a tabloid magazine in my life – and I have no intention of ever doing so.
“I certainly didn’t realize that was what I was doing when I subscribed to BAR.”
Some Christians have reacted furiously to the claim that Eve came from Adam’s penis
And Rev Don Brubacher, from Canada, dismissed the theory as totally unconvincing, laughable and outlandish.
“As Jesus scathingly said: ‘You blind guides! You strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.’ (Matthew 23:24),” Brubacher said.
Defending his theory, Professor Zevit wrote that his understanding of how Eve was formed is based on analysis of the use of Hebrew in the Garden story.
Other readers were less critical of the theory.
Peter Bentley, from Hong Kong, said: “Zevit transports one ‘literally’ into the garden of Eden. ‘A totally extraordinary literary – and, dare I say, ‘religious’ – experience.”
While many animals do have a baculum, humans are not the only mammal without one.
We are part of a boneless group that includes whales, horses, rhinos, rabbits and spider monkeys, all of which have evolved without the penis bone.
In his book, The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkin’s suggested that selective sexual pressure may have led to the bone disappearing in humans.
A possible explanation could be the move from quick, opportunistic mating to more complex socio-sexual behaviour in our evolution and paternity.
This move allowed for more frequent, but shorter duration mating.
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