QueenB@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 9 months agoEveryone makes incest jokes about Adam and Eve and their children but they never mention that there was another woman named Lilith (Adam's first wife) who would have added variance to the gene pool.message-squaremessage-square126fedilinkarrow-up199arrow-down132file-text
arrow-up167arrow-down1message-squareEveryone makes incest jokes about Adam and Eve and their children but they never mention that there was another woman named Lilith (Adam's first wife) who would have added variance to the gene pool.QueenB@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square126fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·9 months agoCurrent scholarly consensus is that the Geneses are actually two different accounts, one likely originating in ancient Israel and the other in ancient Judah. It’s why the two stories are so startlingly different when you read them side by side.
minus-squareagent_flounder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoExactly. King Josiah is believed to have had religious stories and traditions from both regions of Judah (North and South).
Current scholarly consensus is that the Geneses are actually two different accounts, one likely originating in ancient Israel and the other in ancient Judah. It’s why the two stories are so startlingly different when you read them side by side.
Exactly. King Josiah is believed to have had religious stories and traditions from both regions of Judah (North and South).