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Creation and Blessing: A Guide to the Study and Exposition of Genesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

According to the author, his purpose is to “help the reader appreciate the major literary and theological motifs that form the theological ideas in the narratives, and to demonstrate how these theological ideas can be developed into clear and accurate expository ideas.” To accomplish this goal, Ross introduces four approaches to the study of Genesis—literary-analytical, form-critical,...

in order to engage the woman in conversation. The woman’s attempt to paraphrase the commandment in response to the question reveals several telling changes (vv. 2–3); the serpent then boldly denied the Word of the Lord (v. 4). It is interesting that three times the Word of the Lord is quoted, but never appropriately: once it is questioned in a misleading way, once it is paraphrased with major changes, and once it is flatly denied. The analysis of the descriptions in the story must incorporate the
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