Does God Command and Punish in the Garden of Eden?

Most interpretations of Gen 2–3 center the motifs of divine command, human obedience, and divine punishment. These ideas, however, are not intrinsic to the narrative. They represent only one possible way of interpreting certain semantic and narrative ambiguities in the story. One can also read Gen 2...

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Published in:Vetus Testamentum Vol. 72; no. 4/5; pp. 609 - 631
Main Author: Kelly, Joseph Ryan
Format: Article
Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2022
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