In the context of the foregoing we have the fortuitous fact that the lineages of the parents of the messianic-figure in the crosshairs of the examination throw us a bone. The father's lineage stops at Abraham, while the mother's lineage goes all the way back to the genesis of the first human ha-adam. Catching a glimpse of this udderly important nuance, the Jewish Chachamim legalize the counterintuitive law that states that the lineage of a genuine firstborn Jew is matriarchal not patriarchal. The true Jewish firstborn's matriarchal lineage goes all the way back to the prelapse genesis of the human race implying typologically that he's the firstborn of ha-adam as though the first human is the first Jewish firstborn's (פטר רחם) mother rather than his father. Consequently, the first Jewish father (and the messianic-figure's lineage makes this link) is Abraham rather than ha-adam.
In the Gospels, two lineages are given for the birth of the purported Jewish messiah. His mother's lineage goes all the way back to the first human, while, ironically, his step-father's lineage goes back only to Abraham? Realizing that this Jewish firstborn, thought to be the messianic-personage, has only a step-father, not a biological father, is key to the preceding paragraph, since this one little nuance (no biological father) threatens to unify three elements of the current deconstruction of Jewish thought. 1. Messiah's mother's lineage going back to the first human. 2. A Jewish law making Jewish identity come singularly from the mother. 3. Messiah's step-father's lineage going back only to Abraham.
In reverse engineering Judaism, using the Gospel account of the Jewish messiah's two lineages, we focus a bright light on the founding ritual that makes Abraham the father of the messianic brood. That founding ritual, if indeed this examination is on target, would needs-be relate directly to the fact of messiah's mother's lineage passing by Abraham and going all the way back to the first human,
ha-adam, rather than stopping with Abraham or Sarah as it were, and as was the case concerning messiah's patrilineage. To this end we have the fortuitous exegesis of Rabbi Samson Hirsch whereby he points out that the true Hebrew of the text recounting the establishment of the Abrahamic covenant claims not that Abraham is given a newly established covenant, but, according to Rabbi Hirsch, the Hebrew text, faithfully exegeted, says Abraham will be given the renewal of a previously existing covenant, which, presumably, has (the previously existing covenant), at some point prior to the establishment of the Abrahamic reinstatement, become defunct.
If Abraham is reinstating the original covenant between God and the first human (
ha-adam), then the central ritual used to signify this as being the case, i.e., taking a knife and cutting the male flesh on the human body,
bris milah, ritual circumcision (perhaps ritual emasculation), lends itself to messiah's mother's lineage going all the way back to the first human, since, in the re-establishment of the first covenant, what must have been "strange flesh" (new flesh), that is male flesh, the male organ, the cause for the break in the covenant, the cause of the fall of mankind, is targeted, in the Abrahamic reinstatement, for removal (bringing a blade to the male flesh that broke the first covenant). What appears to have been added to the first human in order to break the original covenant, and yet allow for the propagation of the fallen epoch, i.e, male flesh, the serpentine organ, is, when Abraham renews the lapsed covenant, symbolically, ritually, significantly, removed, rendering messiah's founding father (Abraham) incapable of passing on the testimony of the broken/lapsed covenant, in the old-fashioned manner: phallic-procreation.
Voila! Messiah's birth is marked by the fact that since he has no biological father, his mother acts as both, so that her lineage goes all the way back to the only other time a human was originally designed to act as both mother and father to offspring: prelapse, pre-phallic,
ha-adam.
Abraham situates himself as the father of this messianic personage by the very act that symbolizes, and thus points backward, to the only time one human was intended to be both father and mother, which is to say the prelapse human,
ha-adam. By ritually unmanning himself, and thus his ability to pass on the now contaminated testimony of the first covenant, Abraham reveals the most significant aspect of the renewal of the re-engineered covenant: the birth of the messianic firstborn of humanity by means of a single-gendered conception, pregnancy, and birth, that points backwards to one verse in Genesis as the genesis of the fall and the contamination of the biological and theological scroll: Genesis 2:21. Messiah's paternal lineage goes back to father Abraham since father Abraham symbolically unmans himself to reveal that the true firstborn of humanity, the intended son of
ha-adam (not the s.o.b. Cain), was supposed to be, and in the Gospel account is, fathered and mothered by the same singular person such that per Jewish law the true firstborn Jew has only, gains his lineage only through, a Jewish mother.
In the Gospel account, four people are theologically significant in messiah's conception and birth: his mother, his stepfather, Abraham (the start of messiah's patrilineage), and
ha-adam (the start of his matrilineage). By symbolically emasculating himself, Abraham ritually eliminates himself and his phallic-progeny (to include messiah's stepfather) from the theological equation leaving only messiah's mother, and
ha-adam, as theologically significant to the conception and birth of the Jewish messiah.
John
