The Bible, and even the Torah, are compilations from stories that existed before these particular books were written down. However, the character of Lilith as “first wife of Adam” is probably not something left out of the Torah, but a much later invention.
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Because Lilith isn’t mentioned in all versions of the Adam and Eve story, and certainly isn’t mentioned in Genesis. There’s plenty of versions of the story with lots of different characters, and plenty of interpretations of what happens, but in the Canonical Christian Bible, there are at least two events where the entire human race is only directly described as being one single family - Adam and Eve, and Noah’s flood.
fubo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 4 months ago
You have to remember that which books got to be canon in the Bible were decide at the Council of Nicea
QueenB@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The confusion comes from Genesis giving two creation accounts of a woman.
Genesis 1:27 So God created mankind in his own image,in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
then later…
Genesis 2:22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
It appears that a man and woman was created at the same time in Genesis 1:27, then later in Genesis 2:22 a woman was created from a rib
daddyjones@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is probably a result of the Hebrew literary practice of narrating a story once in poetic language and then again in prose. So it’s the same man and woman being created, just retold in a different style.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is correct. Context is everything in understanding any historical source. The Hebrew texts are no different, in fact they’re a great case study in this field. They’re littered with complex poems.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My understanding is that these were two separate stories that were compiled into official state religious texts at the time of King Josiah to unify the country under one monotheistic religion.
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is the origin of the McRib.
gnate@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Rib was better as a DJ, just put down the mic.
ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 4 months ago
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.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Exactly. King Josiah is believed to have had religious stories and traditions from both regions of Judah (North and South).