THE DIVINE PURPOSE FOR THE WOMAN: MAN'S `EZER KENEGDO
David A. Magalong
Genesis 1:27.
"So
God created man A
in His image; B
in the image of God B
he created him; A
male and female B1
He created them." A1
This is the first poetic statement in the Bible. Its first part is structured as a chiastic A-B-B-A, where the same letter means identical contents. The second part, the B1-A1 portion, explains or expands the idea of the first group through a parallelistic structure, where B1 expands on B and A1 expands on A. The poetic parallelism between the phrases "image of God" (B) and "male and female" (B1) thus reveals that the "image of God" is reflected not only in the man, or the "male," but in both "male......
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