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A Walk in the Garden: Biblical, Iconographical and Literary Images of Eden is unavailable, but you can change that!

Genesis is about beginnings and origins. It is vitally important for understanding not only the biblical narrative, but also Christian theology. This volume brings together scholars with expertise in biblical studies, the traditions of Christian and Jewish exegesis, the history of art and literature, and various contemporary approaches to the study and interpretation of texts. The contributors...

has promised them that on eating the fruit their eyes will be opened and they will be like gods, knowing good and evil (3:5). What this ‘knowing good and evil’ entails is not clear. From other biblical uses it can imply the knowledge that is not yet available to children (Deut. 1:39) or something as general as knowing and judging everything that is going on about one (compare 2 Sam. 14:17 with 14:20). Does it have an expressly moral sense, or is it linked to sexual propriety or to the issue of obedience
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