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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...

warned in 2:17; but many scholars believe that death is here depicted as the eventual release from toil, and not necessarily as a punishment. In these words (3:16–19) man and woman are not condemned to death, but to life. They must go on, separated from God, the source of blessing; but existence spent far from God is existence on its way to death. The man is still haʾadam (“the human”); he is called ish (“man”) only in vv. 6 and 16 of this chapter, where the word specifically
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