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Evil in Genesis: A Contextual Analysis of Hebrew Lexemes for Evil in the Book of Genesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Genesis of Evil. The book of Genesis recites the beginnings of the cosmos and its inhabitants. It also reveals the beginning of evil. Before long, evil infests God’s good creation. From there, good and evil coexist and drive the plot of Genesis. In Evil in Genesis, Ingrid Faro uncovers how the Bible’s first book presents the meaning of evil. Faro conducts a thorough examination of evil on...

The search for the meaning and use of evil (רע ,רעה ,רעע) in Genesis begins with the simple lexical and literary trail with a focus upon synchronic analysis, or text-immanent exegesis.1 The occasional droning of data in part I is necessary to undergird the concepts developed as a result of the study. Part II draws together the pertinent threads of data into theological analysis and weaves
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