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  • From: Polycarp66 AT aol.com
  • To: lizfried AT umich.edu, b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Gen 2:17: Dying thou shalt die
  • Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 06:01:15 EDT


In a message dated 8/22/2000 12:51:26 PM Central Standard Time,
lizfried AT umich.edu writes:

<< The story is not about the origin of evil (for that you have to
wait till Gen 6:1). The story is about what it means to be
a human being: it means to be different from the animals
in that you have moral discernment, and yet to be different
from the gods by being mortal.
>>

Not quite that long. You're forgetting Cain & Abel. There's that rather
enigmatic sentence in Gen 4.7

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gfsomsel




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