Genesis 3:15 is about the Virgin Mary

 

The Fertile Crescent was home to the widely dispersed early Hebrew ruler-priests.

Dr Alice C. Linsley

In Genesis 3:15, the first Messianic prophesy of the Bible, the Seed/Son of God is the son of the "Woman", and this is not Eve. Eve is not named until 5 verses later. The identity of the Woman becomes clear when we understand what the early Hebrew believed. They are ones who first believed in the coming of Messiah. Their belief concerning the Son of God is expressed in Genesis 3:15.

"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel".

Genesis 3:15 is called the protoevangelium, or the Proto-Gospel. The early Hebrew believed in God Father and God Son and anticipated the incarnation of the Son by divine overshadowing of a virgin of their priest caste. This expectation is expressed in the promise of deliverance given to Abraham's Hebrew ancestors. Their hope was to be delivered from death by a Righteous Ruler who would overcome death and lead his people to immortality. They pinned that hope on the appearing of the Son of God.

According to the early Nilotic Hebrew, the first act of the Creator at the beginning was šw (Shu), meaning light. This is not the light of day. It is the eternal, uncreated light associated with the High God's son Y-shu (Yeshua), as proclaimed in John's Prologue.

Jesus or Yeshua is the name that was given to the son the Virgin Mary conceived by divine overshadowing. Luke 1:35 makes this clear. The Angel Gabriel explained to Mary: "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God."

The early Hebrew (4200-2000 BC) lived before the emergence of Judaism. The language they used was not Hebrew because Hebrew did not yet exist. The Hebrew ruler-priests who lived in the Ancient Nile Valley (ANV) used pictographic symbols to communicate in writing. One of their shrine cities was Nekhen, the oldest known site of Horite Hebrew worship. Nekhen was a principal city of the Fertile Crescent. Systematic excavations at Nekhen began in 1897-1898, led by British archaeologists James Quibell and Frederick W. Green. In the early 2020s, work continued under the direction of Renée Friedman. Various areas were excavated, including elite cemeteries (HK6), industrial zones (breweries), and monumental architecture.

The written communication of the Mesopotamian Hebrew employed Akkadian cuneiform. Ancient Akkadian is the oldest known Semitic language. The oldest biblical texts contain some words of Akkadian origin. The word "Hebrew"is derived from the ancient Akkadian word abru, meaning priest. The name for Cain/Kain/Kan is a play on the Akkadian word kan, referring to blood and a field. (According to Genesis 4:8, Cain killed his brother Abel in a field and Abel's blood cried out to God from the ground). The name Lamech (Gen. 4 and Gen. 5) is an Akkadian title: lumakku, referring to a junior priest.

The early Hebrew believed that a Woman of their royal priest caste would conceive the Son of the High God by divine overshadowing, just as the Angel declared to the Virgin Mary. This expectation was depicted in images of the Son's mother overshadowed by the Sun.

The early Hebrew regarded the Sun as the symbol of the High God. This image shows Hathor overshadowed. She is the archetypal mother of the archetypal Son of God, HR/Horus.

The Son of God was to crush the serpent under his feet. This belief was expressed by the early Hebrew priests on the walls of royal tombs. One such text says, "Horus has shattered (tbb, crushed) the mouth of the serpent with the sole of his foot (tbw)". (Ancient Pyramid Texts, Utterance 388, p. 128.) Another states, "The sandal of Horus/HR is what tramples the snake underfoot" (Utterance 378).

Horus is the Greek for the Proto-Egyptian word HR, meaning "Most High One". The Nilotic Hebrew spoke of the Son's father as Re, meaning "father" in Proto-Egyptian.

It must be evident that the "Woman" of Genesis 3:15 cannot be Eve.

Related reading: Why the Name Jesus?; They Believed in a Messiah 6000 Years Ago; Horite and Sethite Mounds; The Hebrew were a Caste; Funerary Rites and the Hope of Resurrection; Early Resurrection Texts; Righteous Rulers and the Resurrection