thx ub, i got that.
i also value the literary analysis of the bible in its own merit. it really, truly is quite an excellent collection of ancient literature once one takes it for what it is, something i had never had the opportunity to do until recently.
so when i ask questions about oddities in genesis, its not to poke fun at inerrantists so much as to try and dig into the meanings the authors originally put into the stories that have been all but irrecovably lost under millenia of pious and anti-intellectualist redaction and interpretation.
mox