⁂ L. Rhodes on Nostr: Incidentally, David Rosenberg and Harold Bloom made the case that much of the ...

Incidentally, David Rosenberg and Harold Bloom made the case that much of the Penteteuch was written by a woman in Solomon's court, and that she gave traditional Levantine stories a witty gloss as a satirical treatment of women's status in monarchial Israel: https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-book-of-j/

There's certainly a lot of wordplay in Genesis, starting with Adam (alluding to adamah, the earth) and Eve (or Ḥawwāh, which sounds like ḥyw, living).