Eve’s Various Children, Abstract Language and Job Titles

We summarize and discuss the Grimm Bros.’ tale “Eve’s Various Children,” which takes us past the Fall and being kicked out of the Garden of Eden in Adam and Eve’s growing family.  The Lord is to come to visit, but Eve only presents her beautiful children.  God blesses them as “king,” “count,” “learned man” and so forth, so she shows her ugly children as well.  He blesses them “fisherman,” “blacksmith,” etc. and she is at first taken aback, but the Lord corrects her perception, saying those too are useful for the world to come.  We discuss this story and have different perspective at first.  I viewed it through a kind of inherited classist perspective but she sees it as a kind of origin story that imparts dignity to working jobs.  We discuss abstract and politically-correct language of our time.

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