option (c2 and d)
vayeda` ha'adam 'et xavah 'ishto vatahar
option (c3 and d) the actual text:
veha'adam yada` 'et xavah 'ihsto vatahar
Of course, our knowledge of the world (and the birds and the bees in
particular ;-) ) tells us
the events of 4:1 are in sequence, but do the linguistic options I list
above for describing the events denote any recognizable difference in how
they temporally relate the clauses in series a-d? Or are they merely
equivalents? Do you think I have a naive and/or sort of hyper-sensitivity
to syntax?