Good grief, Miss Joicy, you are one smart cookie!!
Carol in Memphis
On Sun, 06 Aug 2000 19:35:50 -0400 Joicy <joicy@erols.com> writes:
>
> Great question, Chris. Two thoughts that may help it to make sense.
> As you
> know it's a very brief story that relies heavily on symbols to "tell
> a lot
> with a little." I don't think the writer was by any means limiting
> Adam and
> Eve to what they would have to endure, but selecting images that
> perhaps
> most vividly represented their roles as male and female. The second
> thing is
> that many scholars believe that this was not so much given as a
> curse, but
> simply a statement of the reality they would face once out of the
> garden.
> Make sense? Love, joicy
> >
> > Joicy, you have so much insight! I love reading your posts - and
> forwarding
> > them to my sister. But speaking of Adam & Eve here's a question
> for you: we
> > know that they were punished and Adam told he will suffer hard
> labor to earn
> > his keep and Eve's punishment was the pain of childbirth. So how
> come
> > modern-day "Eves" everywhere have to endure *both* curses???? :)
> My boss
> > can't answer that one. -chris
>
>
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