Sinis
Yea, but what came first, the innie or the outie?
That's a toughie.
If there was no playmate for adam then did he even have a third member?
You are suggesting that it grew in (umm, out) after eve appeared? Interesting. S
Names for the animals, Where is that list?
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Satanus
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Satanus
tan
Does that include those microscopic creatures???
It depends if adam had a microscopic or microscopic vision. Being perfect, i suspect he had the latter, so, yes, it does include them.
S
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Narkissos
Why, most of the names in that list can be found in any Hebrew lexicon, since Adam spoke Hebrew!
Cf. Insight, "Hebrew II":
Watchtower 1971, 1/15:The Bible is the only historical source giving reliable evidence of the origin of the language that we know as Hebrew. It was, of course, spoken by the Israelite descendants of "Abram the Hebrew" (Ge 14:13), who, in turn, was descended from Noah’s son Shem. (Ge 11:10-26) In view of God’s prophetic blessing on Shem (Ge 9:26), it is reasonable to believe that Shem’s language was not affected when God confused the language of the disapproved people at Babel. (Ge 11:5-9) Shem’s language would remain the same as it had been previously, the "one language" that had existed from Adam onward. (Ge 11:1) This would mean that the language that eventually came to be called Hebrew was the one original tongue of mankind. As stated, secular history knows no other.
Jehovah God granted to the first man Adam the privilege of naming the lower creatures. (Gen. 2:19) The names given doubtless were descriptive. This is suggested by some of the Hebrew names for animals and even plants. "Burrower" seems to be the name for the fox. "Springer" or "leaper" is seemingly applied to the antelope. "Waker" designates the almond tree, apparently because of its being one of the earliest trees to bloom.
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Satanus
Yes, good point narkissos. But, this theory brings up other questions:
Why are not at least a goodly portion of those names listed in genesis?
Did adam and eve speak hebrew?
Has nonbiblical hebrew been preserved intact since 6000 yrs ago?
Can hebrew be traced back that far?
The bible itself claims that the original patriarch came from babylon. It also suggests that the name of god was not clear to him.
S
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Narkissos
Hey Satanus,
You didn't think I was serious, did you?
The whole idea of having Adam and Eve created with a language like Hebrew (or any other real one for that matter) is ludicrous. It takes many many human generations to build up the structure of any given language and this structure, conversely, bears the marks of this gradual, cultural process. Think of the idea of Adam forging "descriptive" names for the animals and all the previous concepts it implies, slowly isolated from the mass of perceptions to identify and categorise objects (nouns) and actions (verbs) before using them to describe any new observation.
Seriously, Hebrew is hardly attested before the 1st-millenium BC, and is perfectly at home within the family of Semitic languages (which also include the Assyrian and Babylonian "Akkadian," after the non-Semitic Sumerian period), as one of its NW forms. Its continuity with other Canaanite dialects is perfectly shown, among other things, by its close relationship to the older (2nd-millenium) texts of Ugarit (Ras Shamra), making clear that what we call Hebrew developed in Canaan and nowhere else.
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Satanus
Narkissos
You didn't think I was serious, did you?
No, but i was getting ready to put on my thinking cap and google flippers and dive into the net.
S
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parakeet
***This would mean that the language that eventually came to be called Hebrew was the one original tongue of mankind. As stated, secular history knows no other.***
Check out Leolaia's post, which was revived today by under believer--talks about this exact point.
***"Burrower" seems to be the name for the fox. "Springer" or "leaper" is seemingly applied to the antelope.***
I wonder what the name was for intestinal worms. SlimySlitherer? But maybe the intestinal worms ate straw back in those days.