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JALw:

>God said whoever eats from the tree of knowledge would surely die.  (Genesis

>2:17) Adam ate the fruit and lived 930 years, then he died. (Genesis 5:5)

> Bibliolators harmonize this by saying that "die" in Chapter 2 means

>"spiritual" death.  

>

>What resources, if any, are available to show the the original Hebrew word

>used in Chapter 2 meant "physical death"?  Are there extant Hebrew precursors

>to the Septuagint?  


CHRISA:

You don't seriously think that the author(s) of Genesis would seriously
leave a gaping whole that large if they didn't believe there was a purpose
to it?  I think that in this case, "you should surely die" should DEFINITELY
be considered allegorical, and NOT literal.


>Another question:  Has anybody ever demonstrated that Chapters 1 and 2 of

>Genesis were written by different individuals?  Is it a coincidence that the

>contradicting account of creation in Chapter 2 also contains God's

>questionable decree of death for whoever eats the fruit?


I think the consensus of Biblical scholars agree there are at least four
"strands" interwoven throught the Pentateuch (the Hebrew Torah, the first
five books of the Bible, etc.)  This "JEDP" theory isolates four literary
sources (four possible "authors" or groups of authors): 

J: Yahwist strand (Jehovah strand).  "God" is refered to Yahweh here.
E: Elohist strand. "God" is refered to as Elohim here.
D: Deuteronomist strand.
P: The Preistly strand (the Levitical strand).

This ends my knowledge of the JEDP theory.  :-)

- Chris
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