re: Cain's wife. Who was she? I read the bible several times. I Googled

[AlinPA]

and can't figure it out. There is this long story about them living 800 years, and genes, etc., etc. but no answer is ever given by the Christian experts. It is not my intent to make light of the bible nor to be disrespectful; I just want to know.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Well, then, the entire Bible, Judaism, and Christianity must be a lie!!

Good for you, discovering, finally, the ultimate truth in the greatest and most fantastic conspiracy ever done.

:eyes:

[Teaser]

2. Jumella

http://www.bartleby.com/81/38.html

The Mahometan (muslim, ugh...Teaser) tradition of the death of Abel is this: Cain was born with a twin sister who was named Aclima, and Abel with a twin sister named Jumella. Adam wished Cain to marry Abel’s twin sister, and Abel to marry Cain’s. Cain would not consent to this arrangement, and Adam proposed to refer the question to God by means of a sacrifice. God rejected Cain’s sacrifice to signify his disapproval of his marriage with Aclima, his twin sister, and Cain slew his brother in a fit of jealousy.

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Her name was Jennifer

She was the first nail technician.

And, lo! Jennifer the wife of Cain didst buff and polish Rehoboathsheba's nails until they did attain a bitchen gloss, then applied paint unto them in variegated but tasteful patterns, proclaiming unto the nations that she was a Daughter of the Law, and verily, a hottie.

(Levitracus 14:22)

God said it. I believe it. That settles it.

Well, almost.

:evilgrin:

--p!

[razors edge]

6. and don't forget

send you donations to reverend jim bob of the church of latter pay taints

stone mountain georgia.

[aquart]

4. Abel's twin sister. Qelimath.

Page 92, Hebrew Myths, The Book of Genesis by Robert Graves and Raphael Patai.

[Teaser]

5. Qelimath=Aclima?

Aclima would be the arabic version of the name. But Aclima was the one cain wanted. Jumella was the one he was given.

So who counts as his wife?

[aquart]

7. The one he wanted was his own twin sister. Bad Cain! No twin!

God made him marry Abel's twin. Still incest, but just a little less.

Patai and Graves say this reeks of Essene horror at the sexual act. Anything involving sex was dirty, dirty, dirty.

It all comes from the dancing on the head of a pin you have to do if you take the bible literally. You can't imagine some of the mental garbage they quote from the Talmud in this book.

[Teaser]

8. Have you read Sandman's take on Cain and Abel?

Highly recommend it, if you haven't.

[AlinPA]

11. Thank you, I have a lot of reading to do on this.

[bobbieinok]

9. when kids in Sunday School start to ask questions, 1 thing they want to

know----if Adam and Eve have Cain and Abel (and maybe other children), do brothers marry sisters??????????

[Danger Mouse]

10. I don't know...

but he certainly 'knew' her!
Anyone who gets that awful, awful joke should be ashamed of yourselves. Sigh.
Didn't Lot's daughters sleep with him in order to get themselves pregnant?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. First of all, Cain (and the rest of the figures in that part of

Genesis) are mythical, allegorical figures for developments in human history. (Cain represents the rise of agriculture.)

Furthermore, Genesis was not written by someone sitting down and putting down a straight narrative. It was compiled from three different oral traditions, so it's not surprising that a few details fell between the cracks.

Cain's wife may have been explained in one of the legends that didn't make the cut. :-)

[Dervill Crow]

13. Here's an essay about "The Other People."

http://www.caw.org/articles/otherpeople.html

"We Are the Other People"
by Oberon Zell

"Ding-dong!" goes the doorbell. Is it Avon calling? Or perhaps Ed McMahon with my three million dollars? No, it's Yahweh's Witlesses again, just wanting to have a nice little chat about the Bible...

Boy, did they ever come to the wrong house! So we invite them in: "Enter freely and of your own will..." (Hey, it's Sunday morning, nothing much going on, why not have a little entertainment?) Diane and I amuse ourselves watching their expressions as they check out the living room: great horned owl on the back of my chair; ceremonial masks and medicine skulls of dragons and unicorns on the wall; crystals, wands, staffs, swords; lots of Goddess figures and several altars; boa constrictors draped in amorous embrace over the elkhorn; white doves sitting in the hanging planters; cats and weasels underfoot; iron dragon snorting steam atop the wood stove; posters and paintings of wizards and dinosaurs and witchy women, some proudly naked; sculptures of mythological beasties and lots more dinosaurs; warp six on the star-filled viewscreen of my computer; a five-foot model of the USS Enterprise and the skeleton of a plesiosaur hanging from the ceiling; very, very many books, most of them dealing with obviously weird subjects... To say nothing of the great horned owl perched on the back of my chair and the Unicorn grazing in the front yard. You know; early Addams Family decor.