Adam was “unequal to his responsibility” and needed help.44 The “incontrovertible proof of man’s supremacy—the naming of the animals—is sandwiched between the two announcements of his insufficiency,” Starr writes,45 which is to say that naming the animals is no proof at all of Adam’s superiority. Another issue, for both Bushnell and Starr, is what they consider to be a mistranslation of the Hebrew word ṣēlāʿ in Genesis 2:21. While most English translations render ṣēlāʿ here as “rib,” ṣēlāʿ is