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Originally Posted by Nell
First, questions: If the verses were properly translated, if woman was built from a "rib" from the side of the man, why does the verse say "of his flesh and of his bones"?
Why does it not it simply say "we are members of his body, of his bones"?
As you have noted, could there be a translation issue? Is it possible that there is more than one translation issue?
Nell
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I think that the problem is not really translation — unless we remain convinced that everything about the story of creation is literal, or that if metaphorical in any way, we need to milk each metaphor for all the possible places it could go.
Eliminate those and the rib is sufficient as a metaphor. It need not marry-up to modern terminology or anything literal. All it needs to do is establish that God created with the end result that we are of two genders.