New Theory On Adam’s Penis Causes Outrage

[cleanhippie]

A religious academic has kicked up a sacrilegious storm by saying the Biblical creation myth actually intends to say that God created Eve out of Adam’s penis bone.

The claim comes from a book called "What Really Happened In The Garden Of Eden" by Professor Ziony Zevit from the American Jewish University in Maryland. The book was published in 2013, although has recently reemerged and riled up Christians after a review in the September/October issue of the Biblical Archeology Review.

The theory came to Zevit after translating and studying the Hebrew text of Adam and Eve in the Genesis story of the Old Testament. Zevit believes the Hebrew word "tsela" does not translate as "rib," but instead can be understood to mean "limbs sticking out sideways from an upright human body."

As men and women do actually have the same amount of ribs (and any other sideways sticking limbs, for that matter), Zevit believes this is how the ancient Israelites attempted to explain the uniquely boneless human penis.

Human males are one of the few species of mammals who don’t have a baculum (a penis bone). Bears, bats, cats, walruses and even our closest living relative – the chimpanzee – all have the bone.

Much of modern Biblical study attempts to use language, poetics, linguistics and literary theory to understand how the stories were perceived in its original context. Despite this, many have taken Zevit’s claim with great offense.

http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/theory-adam-s-penis-bone-creating-eve-causes-outrage

No more absurd than any other biblical 'theory'.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Sideways???? from the body?

I have seen anything like that, I've only seen "in front" of the human body.

[underpants]

2. We're they in side by side claw footed bathtubs?

[CrispyQ]

3. They are trying to create even lower status for women.

Soon they will say Adam shit Eve out of his ass. Fucking morons.

[Igel]

10. Is that what he said?

Or what you infer?

For that you'd need some valid framework of facts with nice systems of induction and a reason to apply it to this particular individual. I don't think that holds. But it's certainly in keeping with a nice humanist "look for the best in people" attitude.

(Not up on current OT crit, this sounds like standard etymological fare to me. And historical linguistics is something I know a bit about. It's also how a lot of older OT crit went, etymology in service of new interpretations.)

[CrispyQ]

13. Man created God to control woman.

I'm somewhat joking when I state that.

Religion has not served women well.

Now that's no joke.

[Cartoonist]

4. I wondered where that bone went.

But what's Eve supposed to do with it?
Like tits on a nun.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. Time to bone up on my bible.

[Hoppy]

6. I think they meant boner, not bone.

[Goblinmonger]

7. Can we get an academic treatise on what position

Zeus used when he sexed up Europa as a swan to give us Helen of Troy? Inquiring minds want to know.

[rug]

8. So, what is yor opinion of Jesis' penis?

[mr blur]

9. Another theological dispute - "Two bald men fighting over a comb". nt

[Warren Stupidity]

11. Note we had another 'u' key malfunction in this thread.

Odd. I don't quite get the pattern.

[rug]

12. I see another malfunction.

[AtheistCrusader]

14. I think most people who would buy that, would be horrified to learn of the Spotted Hyena.

Whose bone was used?

IT IS A MYSTERY