>>>Can be between brother and sister—How else do you explain where Cain’s wife came from!
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>>Um... I'm an exact opposite of a connoisseur on the matter, but in any versions of the story that reached me no sisters were mentioned (which left the Oedipal solution only). Now either the women didn't really count (they had to mention Eve because she was an important persona dramatis), or the story is as full of holes as a road.
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>"Yet another degradation of women"? More like, "Yet another degradation of women brought on by mankind's ignorance and under no influence by a deity, in the time the instructions were written, by a man who, like all the other authors of religious style books including the Quran and Torah, had no schooling or knowledge of the universe let alone equality. Allowing your life to be governed from two thousand years ago borders on insanity.

When you have an imaginary friend, you're a kid. When you grow up and still have an imaginary friend, you're a loony. When you grow up and still have an imaginary friend but one defined in a very old book, you're religious.