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From Eden to Babel: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis 1–11 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Genesis 1-11 preserves a unique view of Bible history, tracing the move from Eden, an idyllic world fully in accord with the will of God, to Babel, a fallen world desperately in need of salvation. In this commentary, Donald E. Gowan demonstrates acute sensitivity and insight in focusing on the theological import of these familiar but often puzzling accounts, showing them to be even more crucial...

serpent. So the discussion ends. No interrogation of the serpent is necessary, for the harm that has been done has been done to the two humans, who had been intended for a special relationship with God and have rejected it. There is no devil to blame for it; for what is wrong in this world, between person and person, people and their God, is the direct result of the human act of self-assertion, attempting to determine good for themselves over against the source of all that is truly good. Human life
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