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