Yes per the following references:
Hi Michael,
Can you unpack this a bit more for me in this thread? Which article and where ought I to be looking at? Both? I see some stuff related to sex in the latter one, at least in the first page or so. Since I’m a, uh physicist, I won’t be able to offer much in the way of Hebrew grammar and word usage, but I do teach a class on origins and could aim to include some of your perspectives in the brief Adam and Eve section.
The two URL’s referenced in the original post refer to a couple of preprints of academic articles (accepted for publication) that suggest the Eve (Chavvah in Hebrew) was pregnant and that’s why Yahweh’s discourse dealt with her up-and-coming birth of Qayin.
The first URL is a paper I wrote about Genesis 2:15-17. In this paper, Chavvah is shown to have conceived in verse 3:7. The second URL is a methods paper and is a heavy Hebrew slog but I thought it would interesting because it reaches the same conclusion using an entirely different method (Scene Analysis).
However, given your confession that you are a physicist, I would be grateful for your thoughts about my latest book, You’ll feel right at home with it, I think.
M. T. Peterson, Beyond the Beginning: Biblical Creation and Modern Cosmology
Also, if the Garden story is of interest, you may be interested an earlier book I wrote about the Garden of Eden story and recovering its original meaning. The URL mentioned above dealing with Genesis 2:15-17 was taken from a chapter in this book.
M. T. Peterson, Genesis II: Recovering Its Original Meaning
Also, I must confess to being an immunologist who also taught Genesis creation at the University of Montana for a couple of years. What do you suppose is with the science guys thinking they are theologians, anyway?
Anyway, thanks for the question,
Cheers,
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