Dr. Dylan Johnson
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Right.
But we're striving for narrative continuity, right?
We want to read a story that doesn't have redundancies and plot holes.
They're trying to preserve sacred scriptures.
So you can't just toss this story out, right?
You have to include it and you have to try and harmonize.
This is what these redactors were doing.
Exactly as you said, story begins.
We have a very anthropomorphic deity here.
He's in a garden.
He's planting.
He's like a human being in certain respects.
But exactly as you say, he creates man.
And I appreciate you said man, not Adam, because it's really important to pinpoint he has no name.
His name is man.
It's not Adam as a proper name, because in certain places, they just call him the man.
So he has no name.
The woman initially has no name either.
Eve comes at the very end of the story.
So man and woman in the garden, God plants the garden himself, again, very anthropomorphic.