Abstract
In a recent article, James Barr has challenged the widely held view that lRt means being or, collectively, humanity.' Barr's article has indeed other concerns in addition to the point to be considered here. For the tite of his paper indicates that his principal interest is the exegetical question whether Gen. i 26-27 envisages the creation on the sixth day of humanity as a species, or of a primaeval pair of humans, or of a male ancestor of the human race. A further interest, perhaps less obvious but lying behind this exegetical question, is to challenge the claim of some feminist scholars that Genesis i portrays a primitive egalitarianism between the sexes.2
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