@cicerone imposter,
The thing is that trying to read the G of E story in a frame of mind where thought is dominated by "what a load of rubbish this is", "it's incoherent", "it's a joke", "how can anybody in their right mind take this **** seriously?", "it's all messed up" etc etc, is to render yourself unable to read it. Any sort of pre-judgement blinds.
The likeliest source of the pre-judgement has been mentioned often enough for me to need to repeat it. It obviously wasn't money in Apisa's case.
Take the word "helpmeet" (chap. 2). All the animals had been given a go and were no good as "helpmeets". So God made him a proper helpmeet: woman. She is not yet Eve. And neither had underpants and "were not ashamed" at that stage.
And then in 3 : 17 God says "Because thou has hearkened unto the voice of thy wife. . . . .in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of they life." Too true eh Romeo?
That's when she is given the name Eve: the mother of all living.
It is well known that Socrates took no notice of his wife; Xanthippe. Which gives us a notion of what "corrupting the youth" meant in the charges he faced. At least to those who were under the cosh at home.
And now an ad on our telly, which we see often, for an insurance company, has a middle-aged lower-middle class lady (see decor and ornaments) triumphantly braying at the camera--"I'm off to Benidorm with the girls!!!"
