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Eugibinus, a Christian, and the Rabbis Samuel, Menasseh ben Israel, and Maimonides taught that “Adam had two faces and one person, and from the beginning he was both male and female—male on one side and female on the other [like Manu’s Brahmâ]; but afterwards the parts were separated.” The one hundred and thirty-ninth Psalm of David was cited by Rabbi Jeremiah ben Eliazar as evidence of this: “Thou hast fashioned me behind and before,” not beset as in the Bible, which is absurd and meaningless, and this shows, as Prof. Wilder thinks, “that the primeval form of mankind was androgynous.”