but the truth of the narrative is really quite profound. By making Eve from Adam, God is teaching Adam to recognize a kind of mirror image of himself in Eve and thus to honor her, while Eve would see that she was made from her husband and respect his leadership.10 In this way, gender is presented not as something arbitrary and self-defined but as an innate characteristic with corresponding role-responsibilities for each sex. While every human of every race and both genders
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