Provocative as ever. I've had to agree that Lamech's wife was probably lying. This suggests that she had been sexual with Lamech & hadn't conceived. The first barren female of the OT?

I've wondered if the Bible is really the story of consciousness. We're born (ejected from Eden/the womb). As children we're surrounded by giants (adults/Nephilim). We develop a solitary, armored ego (Israel/Jerusalem). That fails as a new spiritual consciousness is born.