Why Eve Might Have Been Better Off With Daughters Analysis

The First Birth of a Child, or, Why Eve Might Have Been Better Off With Daughters The Hebrew Bible story of Cain and Abel explores the relationship between siblings, as well as the concept of intimacy. Many passages of the Bible discuss the intimacy of the relationship between God and Man, but none quite so well as this story of two brothers, and this is largely due to the amount of nuance in the narrative. What immediately stands out in the story of Cain and Abel is the first silence, between the birth of the boys and the declaration of one as a tiller of the ground, and one as a keeper of the sheep. In this silence is the entire childhood of the two brothers, which has to lead to the fundamental difference between them. What was different in their upbringing that brought them to

Perhaps God lets these boys suffer because their family line is unclean, full of sin, and without the sacrifice of the Christ. This brings us to another theme that appears in this passage; the idea of blood sacrifices. Some scholars believe that Cain’s gift to God simply wasn’t good enough because it wasn’t a blood sacrifice like Abel’s. The idea of blood as important to God is prevalent in Scripture, from this first mention of Cain’s sheep (Genesis 4:4), to Abraham’s offering of Isaac (Genesis 22), to the idea of women’s menstruation making her unclean (Leviticus 15:19-30). God even claims that Cain’s blood is crying out to Him from the ground (Genesis 4:10). Interestingly, one can draw a parallel between this picture of the Abrahamic God and the gods of the Aztecs and the Mayans, gods that took the blood sacrifices of their most beautiful people as a sacred offering. The God of Israel seems to be less choosy as to where the blood comes from, especially in this instance, the blood is what matters. Perhaps this is an attempt by God to understand the intimacy of humans. We are, biologically, healers. It is part of our