easily recognized by the original readers, and they would have seen a continuation of the pattern when Adam said, “she shall be called Woman.” The original readers of Genesis and of the rest of the Old Testament would have been familiar with this pattern, a pattern whereby people who have authority over another person or thing have the ability to assign a name to that person or thing, a name that often indicates something of the character or quality of the person. Thus parents give names to their
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