Biblical Hebrew Forum

[peter_kirk AT sil.org]

The idea of Cain and Abel being twins seems an interesting and 
plausible explanation of the rather odd WATTOSEP LALEDET at the 
beginning of 4:2, though I have a feeling this idea was discussed and 
rejected on this list a year or so ago - can anyone remember those 
arguments? But I think it would be stretching credibility to suggest 
that the birth of Cain was not the result of Adam "knowing" Eve; the 
language may literally mean sequence but surely implies also a chain 
of cause and effect. The start of 4:1 (the QATAL verb) could be 
interpreted as a flashback, so that the conception could have taken 
place in the garden, at the same time as the taking of the fruit (and 
the language there could be in part symbolic and euphemistic for the 
sex act). But I don't think we can get away from Adam being the 
biological father of Cain. Anyway, Cain seems to have been fully 
human, physically, not half snake.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: Serpent Seed Doctrine ('eTH in Gen. 4:1)
Author:  <YAHSHUAS AT aol.com> at Internet
Date:    06/01/2000 02:23


What you all think of Cain and Able as being twins?  Eve being beguiled by 
the serpent, therefore the father of the evil one ( Cain), and Able the son 
of Adam?  Gen. 4:2 says "she again bare his brother Able".  The word again as 
if to continue in child birth.