Paradise Lost and the Genesis TraditionRevised version of author's thesis, University of Oxford, 1963. |
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... Jahwist's narrative energy derives from the material he is dealing with . If P is a crude form of chronicle , J is a full - blooded myth , and legendary elements such as the speaking serpent and the magical trees play a prominent part ...
... Jahwist's narrative energy derives from the material he is dealing with . If P is a crude form of chronicle , J is a full - blooded myth , and legendary elements such as the speaking serpent and the magical trees play a prominent part ...
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... Jahwist did not have in mind the later association of the serpent with Satan . In the story as we have it there is nothing to suggest that it was anything but a particularly clever animal.1 The immediate consequence of their ...
... Jahwist did not have in mind the later association of the serpent with Satan . In the story as we have it there is nothing to suggest that it was anything but a particularly clever animal.1 The immediate consequence of their ...
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... Jahwist's insistence on Adam's original ignorance of good and evil has to be denied . Far from prohibiting men to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil God gives them this knowledge in the first place . By far the fullest ...
... Jahwist's insistence on Adam's original ignorance of good and evil has to be denied . Far from prohibiting men to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil God gives them this knowledge in the first place . By far the fullest ...
Contents
THE TEXT | 9 |
THE JEWISH INTERPRETATIONS | 26 |
THE CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATIONS | 59 |
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