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  2. File:The book of Genesis (IA bookofgenesis00newy).pdf

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    Original file (797 × 1,172 pixels, file size: 14.83 MB, MIME type: application/pdf, 168 pages) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

  3. Wiseman hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    R. K. Harrison in his Introduction to the Old Testament wrote approvingly of [Wiseman's] approach which "had the distinct advantage of relating the ancient Mesopotamian sources underlying Genesis to an authentic Mesopotamian life-situation, unlike the attempts of the Graf–Wellhausen school, and showed that the methods of writing and compilation employed in Genesis were in essential harmony ...

  4. Portal:Bible/Featured chapter/Genesis 2 - Wikipedia

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    On the seventh day, the Sabbath, God rests, and sanctifies the day.God forms Adam out of earth ("adamah"), and sets him in the Garden of Eden, to watch over it.Adam is allowed to eat of all the fruit within it, except that of the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil."

  5. Genesis creation narrative - Wikipedia

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    The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity, [1] told in the Book of Genesis ch. 1–2. While the Jewish and Christian tradition is that the account is one comprehensive story, [2] [3] modern scholars of biblical criticism identify the account as a composite work [4] made up of two stories drawn from different sources.

  6. Jahwist - Wikipedia

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    The Jahwist provides the bulk of the remainder of Genesis, the material concerning Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. [18] Those following the classical documentary hypothesis today describe the J text spanning Genesis 2:4 to Genesis 35 with the end of the renaming of Jacob as Israel and the completion of the patriarchs of the twelve tribes.

  7. Textual variants in the Book of Genesis - Wikipedia

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    This list provides examples of known textual variants, and contains the following parameters: Hebrew texts written right to left, the Hebrew text romanised left to right, an approximate English translation, and which Hebrew manuscripts or critical editions of the Hebrew Bible this textual variant can be found in. Greek (Septuagint) and Latin (Vulgate) texts are written left to right, and not ...

  8. Forbidden fruit - Wikipedia

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    In the Vulgate, Genesis 2:17 describes the tree as "de ligno autem scientiae boni et mali": "but of the tree [literally 'wood'] of knowledge of good and evil" (mali here is the genitive of malum). However, Yadin-Israel argues that Latin Christian writers from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages rarely used mâlum to refer to the forbidden fruit. [9]

  9. Jewish mythology - Wikipedia

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    Genesis 1:1–2:3 creation order: Day 1 – Creation of light (and, by implication, time). Day 2 – The firmament. In Genesis 1:17 the stars are set in the firmament. Day 3 – Creating a ring of ocean surrounding a single circular continent. [3] God does not create or make trees and plants, but instead commands the earth to produce them.