(July 18, 2016 at 4:12 pm)Rhythm Wrote: It's a specific interpretation of genesis that leads people to imagine that incest was required. That interpretation is difficult to maintain if one continues to read genesis..for example, when cain complians that his mark will make "other people" kill him...we're not told who those other people might be..just as it doesn't tell us who cain married, but their casual injection into the narrative ought to tell us that with adam and eve, the authors were not necessarily thinking like we might today (or, rather, that they were thinking quite a bit like our colonial ancestors..when they met subhuman savage races of non-men). It was a special creation of a special people. A divine master race. There were other people about, obviously.
Back to reality...cain simply stands in for those elements of their own society that adopted the others way of life, and went out into the world to intermingle with them. In this way they can demonize other ways of life -while claiming credit for their achievements....just as the narrative would later do with the nation of Egypt.
Still borderline incomprehensible, I see.
