Ge 5:2 provides more strong evidence for Lilith.\u00a0 As we have already seen, the brevity of the account and the fact that both the male and female were created and blessed in the same day implies that they were fashioned at the same time.\u00a0 However, there is further evidence for a co-creation.\u00a0 The common name of Adam given to both the male and female alludes to their common creation from the ground.\u00a0 Only the Lilith legend explains the simultaneous creation of both the male and female from the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ge 5:2 states that in the day God created the male and female, he gave them both the name Adam.\u00a0 This common name of Adam has long puzzled scholars and led ancient rabbis to bizarre conclusions.\u00a0 For them the phrase implied that at Adam\u2019s creation, both the female and male existed and were complete.\u00a0 This meant a co-creation of male and female in the same instant.\u00a0 Recognizing the conflict of this with Eve\u2019s later creation, the rabbis attempted to address the problem with assorted odd scenarios.\u00a0 Surprisingly it was rather widely held that Adam was originally created androgynous (i.e. with both male and female organs) or, as the Zohar and others hold, that Eve was somehow attached to his side.\u00a0 With the Lilith legend, no such outrageous arguments are required.\u00a0 Both the male and female were created at the same time from soil, and they were separate beings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The common name of Adam in the passage also suggests a common creation of the male and female from the ground.\u00a0 This is because the name Adam is the masculine form of adamah<\/em> (hmda<\/span> – Strongs 127), which means \u201cground.\u201d\u00a0 God gave the name of Adam to the dual creature to reflect its origin from the ground.\u00a0 It is interesting to note that if one were addressing the female half of the dual Adam creature, one would call it Adamah<\/em> (woman).\u00a0 Likewise, one would address the male half as Adam (man).\u00a0<\/p>\n Where and when the Serpent Adamah might have acquired her latter name of Lilith is subject to speculation.\u00a0 One fascinating possibility is that\u00a0Adam named her this in Ge 2:19-20.\u00a0 Those passages cover Adam\u2019s naming of all the animals in his search for a companion.\u00a0 The passages relate that \u201cevery<\/u> beast of the field\u201d (higher animals with minds and emotions) was summoned unto him to be named.\u00a0 This would certainly include the Serpent Lilith, whom is specified as a beast of the field in Ge 3:1.\u00a0 Thus, according to the literal reading of Ge 2:19-20, God must have summoned the Serpent to Adam, and Adam must have named her.\u00a0 Is it possible Adam gave her the name Lilith?\u00a0 The passages state that Adam gave names to the creatures that reflected their nature.\u00a0 Thus, if he named her as Lilith, her new name must have somehow fit her nature.\u00a0 Lilith, or Liyliyth<\/em>, comes from the root layil<\/em> (lyl<\/span> – Strongs 3915), which means \u201cnight.\u201d\u00a0 One possibility is that Adam perceived the darkness surrounding the Serpent, and named her after this.\u00a0 Another possibility is that she resisted his summoning for quite some time, and when she was finally compelled to arrive, it had become dusk or night.\u00a0 This notion has some support from the Lilith legend, which states that she repeatedly resisted Adam\u2019s call.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ge 5:2 provides more strong evidence for Lilith.\u00a0 As we have already seen, the brevity of the account and the fact that both the male and female were created and blessed in the same day implies that they were fashioned at the same time.\u00a0 However, there is further evidence for a co-creation.\u00a0 The common name … Continue reading “3.6) The Common Name of Adam for both the Male and Female”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-190","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/190\/revisions\/794"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterwaters.com\/bw_12_21_2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}