“Bone of My Bone and Flesh of My Flesh”

Abstract

“The examples of Genesis 1 and Psalm 8 alert us to two dangers in appeal to biblical statements as authority for contemporary faith. Both appear to offer general pronouncements about the nature of humankind with universal applicability. In fact, both are concerned with a very limited question—the place of humans within the created order. Both also assume male models as representative of the species.”