RELG 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mastema, Anthropocentrism, Satan
25 Feb 2014
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Adam is the generic term for human being in the hebrew bible (1st creation account) God creates a man named adam, and women (eve) are made from that man (2nd creation. Bible is treated as an origin story for human beings. How men and women are supposed to behave/interact with each other. Derived from what adam is made out of (soil, mud) Used as a way of understanding why human beings are the way they are. Death was not inevitable (if had not disobeyed god he could have lived forever) Introduced death into the world by disobeying god. Not only responsible for own death, responsible for everyone"s. Everyone derived from adam, everyone inherits death and cause of death (transgression) and guilt. The good departed, the evil stayed (from adam) Women aren"t supposed to teach, only give birth, childbirth is eve"s punishment.
