The Fall as Allegorical Fiction.

[Jenny A]

@Jenny

2) an explanation for the lower status of women that I have to take a deep breath and count to ten before I can look at it any other way.

It was Eve that had the balls to take the first bite. Adam was timid as a churchmouse. I'd say she's the "aggressor" in the relationship, definitely wearing the pants (that they were subsequently gifted with)...lol. He's the quiet conniver, the child that doesn't prevent misbehavior, but is quick to blame his fellows when caught. Maybe he should have stood up to god right there and then. All around he seems, to me, to be a sad sort of archetype for a man (even if he might be a realistic one).

No, no, when a woman's the aggressor, she's hen-pecking.

Speaking of archetypes, want to tackle Cain and Abel next? That story always pissed me off because I couldn't figure out why god liked Able better to begin with. Any reasonable parent or god would have smiled kindly on both offerings even if he secretly liked one better than the other.

Come to think of it, brotherly jealousy is a theme in the OT. There's Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau, Joseph and all his brothers, David's brothers weren't so thrilled with him either. Ham you can do with Noah's Ark, but his real problem is that his brothers told on him.

Moses and Arron is the only good brotherly relationship I can think of. All the rest are fighting over fatherly approval.