…Adam’s knowing Eve had nothing to do with the birth of Cain… In most cases, the logical conclusion that Cain was the son of Adam
would be a proper one, but not with this verse [Genesis 4:1]
…
—Willie Martin
Herein I consider Willie Martin’s The Two Seedlines (all emphasis in the following quotations are in the original). In this segment I will focus on his specific views about the Jews and race in general within his serpent seedline of Satan theory and his Christian Identity which identifies him as an anti-Semitic racist.
All emphasis in the following quotations are in the original. You can find my articles on Martin here.
Here is a taste of the “ancient” sources as Scott Stinson tells us that this is…:
…confirmed in the ancient literature of Israel, especially the commentaries on the Hebrew Bible written in Aramaic and commonly known as Targums. The commentaries were written after the (remnant’s, people from the Tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi) return from Babylon…One text gives this interpretation of Genesis 4:1: ‘And Adam knew his wife Eve, who was pregnant by the Angel Sammael, and she conceived and bare Cain; and he was like the heavenly beings, and not like the earthly beings, and she said, I have acquired a man, the angel of the Lord.” (Targum of Jonathan to Genesis 4:1)
“Another ancient commentary gives a similar interpretation of the same passage: ‘And Adam knew his wife Eve, who had desired the Angel; and she conceived, and bare Cain; and she said, I have acquired a man, the angel of the Lord…” (Palestinian Targum to Genesis 4:1) In another rabbinic work we find a similar interpretation…‘And she saw that his likeness was not of earthly beings, but of the heavenly beings, and she prophesied and said: I have gotten a man from the Lord.’ (Pirke de Rabbi Elieser, 21) One Rabbinic source states: ‘Eve bore Cain from the filth of the serpent, and therefore from him were descended all the wicked generations, and from his side is the abode of spirits and demons.’ (Ahare Moth 76b) A similar explanation for the evil deeds of Cain’s lineage is found elsewhere. We read: ‘For two beings had intercourse with Eve, and she conceived from both and bore two children. Each followed one of the male parents, to this side and one to the other, and similarly their characters. On the side of Cain are all the haunts of the evil species, from which come evil spirit and demons.” (Bereshith 36b)
To understand why I referenced arguing about what is meant by “modern” and “ancient” note that the Targum of Jonathan is aka the Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel and actually aka the Targum Pseudo Jonathan which was written over half a millennia after Jesus’ ascension around the 600s AD.
I have noted that many serpent seedline of Satan theorists play word game, in a manner of speaking, with the Targumim since just because they “were written after the…return from Babylon” which was in the BCs does not mean that all of them where written that early. I am glad, however, that Stinson admits that they are “commentaries” as many refer to them simply are translations and yet, they are a complex weaving of translation, commentary, paraphrasing and Pseudo Jonathan particularly contains much Rabbinic folklore.
In my article Serpent seedline of Satan in Zen Garcia’s book “The Aramaic and Palestinian Targums” I show how such a reading is simply unknown in other Targumim and unknown in various Bible versions from the Peshitta to the Masoretic and from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Septuagint/LXX.
In fact, J.W. Etheridge’s translation of Pseudo Jonathan does not even agree with which ever version was quoted by Scott Stinson as Etheridge’s reads, “And Adam knew Hava his wife, who had desired the Angel; and she conceived, and bare Kain; and she said, I have acquired a man, the Angel of the Lord.” Of course, this is of no help to the serpent seedline of Satan theorists as it states that Adam is the one who knew Eve even though she desired the Angel.
The Pirke de Rabbi Elieser is even later, that is more recent, than Pseudo Jonathan as it dates to the 9th century AD.
Ahare Mott aka Acharei Mot technically refers to Leviticus 16:1-18:30 yet, in this case and along with Bereshith refer to sections of the text titled Zohar. This 13th century AD text is the primary work of Kabbalah which is Rabbinic Judaism’s mysticism.
Willie Martin actually wrote:
So Adam knew Eve his wife, but there is no proof that she got pregnant from that union. A man can have intercourse with his wife many times and not get her pregnant; or he can have it one time and she becomes pregnant.
Just because a man can have intercourse with his wife many times and not get her pregnant does not mean that Adam knew Eve but there is no proof that she got pregnant because, on the other hand, he can have it one time and she becomes pregnant—oh, and, also, the texts tells us that the cause of him knowing her lead to the result of her conceiving.
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