[lit-ideas] "An Help Meet" for Adam -- Was his rib
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:27:32 EDT
We are discussing the second chapter of the first book of Genesis
"It is not good that the man should
be alone. I will make him an help meet
for him."
And out of the ground the Lord formed
EVERY BEAST of the field.
But for Adam there was still not
found an help meet for him.
Geary wonders:
I do find puzzling is that He created a WOMAN to help him -- a guy. What was
He thinking? There [was nothing] to clean -- this was Paradise after all,
what the hell did Adam need help with?
In my exegesis, I would propose that it was the manure from "every beast on
the field".
But here the complication is that this possibly implies that God was _black_
if not female (as McCreery quotes).
For, I read in the definition of 'manure', "applied to fertilize soil".
So I for one (in Adam's place) would take each piece of manure -- from oxen,
etc. -- as a 'blessing' from God to 'fertilize soil'.
>What has he [God] thinking?
Geary asks.
Well, there are at least two options:
1. He thought that Adam would find "an help-meet" in one of those beasts --
cfr. 'the Argentine gaucho called Bruno'. Beasts have proven (especially
oxen) very serviceable to Mankind.
2. He thought that 'every field on the field' would in time produce vast
quantities of manure -- in the _garden_ of Eden, and that perhaps this will
convince Adam that 'an help meet' with the cleaning -- or even perhaps feeding
the chicken and the geese -- would not be a bad idea.
Little did THEY know that SHE would first and foremost be interested in
picking apples.
Cheers,
JL
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