Discernment and Interpretation of Scripture

[Wisdom's Child]

Genesis 2:19-24
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

I think that I know the answer to this, but I would like to hear some other's Interpretation.

Why did God take a Rib from Adam instead of reaching down and grabbing more "Dust of the Earth"?

Why was Woman made different than any other Creation?

[suzie]

'Adam is a generic term meaning "the human person"
God differentiates man ('adam) into man ('ish) and woman ('ishshah)--persons of separate male and female gender identity. God created man in His own image--creating male and female concurrently. Gender differentiation was inherent in God's design for humans from the beginning--Neither male nor female alone, but two of them together as "one flesh" constitute and complete what it means generically to be human.
God wanted to emphasize that both were made of the same substance. Eve was not a separate creation or origin, but a separate expression of the same substance.