Sometimes a Rib Is Just a Rib

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Darrell Pursiful

But perhaps, if Scott Gilbert and Ziony Zevit are correct, a צלע might occasionally be a baculum—a bone conspicuously absent from all human males. Claude Mariottini summarizes their argument, as well as over half a dozen other theories that attempt to make sense of “Adam’s rib.”

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