From Eden to Golgotha: Essays in Biblical Theology (Biblia.com)

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These essays have been brought together with a number or purpose in mind, within the context or a basic concern to explore something or the depth and vitality or the Jewish scriptures and or the Jewish and Christian religious traditions that have grown out or them.

prohibition, expressed in the emphatic form (lo’ rather than ‘al) as in the Decalogue. What exactly is meant by the “knowledge of good and evil” which is prohibited is not made explicit in the text, and need not, I suggest, be an issue at this point.5 In the context of the story it is the fact of prohibition, rather than the content of what is prohibited, that assumes central importance. Thirdly, the penalty for doing what is prohibited is death. The emphatic verbal form used (“You shall surely die”:

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