William Robertson Smith and Thomas Kelly Cheyne

Name: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: William Robertson Smith and Thomas Kelly Cheyne

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

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“1911 Encyclopædia Britannica”, published in 1911, is a work by William Robertson Smith and Thomas Kelly Cheyne. It explores elements such as Eve, narrative and Adam.

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William Robertson Smith and Thomas Kelly Cheyne, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ On the other hand, the strict historical interpretation is beset with difficulties which modern interpreters have felt with increasing force, and which there is a growing disposition to solve by adopting in one or other form what is called the mythical theory of the narrative. But interpretations pass under this now popular title which have no real claim to be so designated. What is common to the “mythical” interpretations is to find the real value of the narrative, not in the form of the story, but in the thoughts which it embodies. ”

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William Robertson Smith and Thomas Kelly Cheyne, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ EVE, the English transcription, through Lat. Eva and Gr. Εὔα, of the Hebrew name חַוָּה‎ Ḥavvah, given by Adam to his wife because she was “mother of all living,” or perhaps more strictly, “of every group of those connected by female kinship” (see W. R. Smith, Kinship, 2nd ed., p. 208) , as if Eve were the personification of mother-kinship, just as Adam (“man”) is the personification of mankind. ”

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William Robertson Smith and Thomas Kelly Cheyne, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ His interpretation of the creation of Eve is, as has been already observed, plainly suggested by a Platonic myth. The longing for reunion which love implants in the divided halves of the original dual man is the source of sensual pleasure (symbolized by the serpent) , which in turn is the beginning of all transgression. Eve represents the sensuous or perceptive part of man’s nature, Adam the reason. The serpent, therefore, does not venture to attack Adam directly. It is sense which yields to pleasure, and in turn enslaves the reason and destroys its immortal virtue. ”

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William Robertson Smith and Thomas Kelly Cheyne, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ Such a theory does no justice to a narrative which embodies profound truths peculiar to the religion of revelation. Other forms of the so-called mythical interpretation are little more than abstract allegory in a new guise, ignoring the fact that the biblical story does not teach general truths which repeat themselves in every individual, but gives a view of the purpose of man’s creation, and of the origin of sin, in connexion with the divine plan of redemption. ”

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William Robertson Smith and Thomas Kelly Cheyne, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ How is it, he asks, that a man is so irresistibly drawn towards a woman? And he answers: Because the first woman was built up out of a rib of the first man. At the same time it is plain that the already existing tendency towards monogamy must have been powerfully assisted by this presentation of Eve’s story as well as by the prophetic descriptions of Yahweh’s relation to Israel under the figure of a monogamous union. ”

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William Robertson Smith and Thomas Kelly Cheyne, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ Those who recognize this fact ought not to call themselves or be called by others adherents of the mythical theory, although they also recognize that in the nature of things the divine truths brought out in the history of the creation and fall could not have been expressed either in the form of literal history or in the shape of abstract metaphysical doctrine ”

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William Robertson Smith and Thomas Kelly Cheyne, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ And he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its stead, and the rib which Yahweh-Elohim had taken from the man he built up into a Creation
of Eve.woman, and he brought her to the man.” Enchanted at the sight, the man now burst out into elevated, rhythmic speech: “This one,” he said, “at length is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh,” &c.; to which the narrator adds the comment, “Therefore doth a man forsake his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife, and they become one flesh (body) .” ”

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William Robertson Smith and Thomas Kelly Cheyne, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ There is an analogous Iranian legend of the true man, which parted into man and woman in the Bundahish [4] (the Parsí Genesis) , and an Indian legend, which, according to Spiegel, has presumably an Iranian source. ”

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