"Did you eat of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?" Rhetorical analysis of Gen 3:9-13
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With this article we have tried to offer a new contribution to the study of exegesis of Gen 3,9-13 following the methodology of Biblical Rhetoric. We have deepened, especially, the rubric «context», paying particular attention to the most authoritative interpretations of the ancient Jewish tradition. The text is a «passage» that comprises three «parts» forming a concentric structure (3,9b-3,10; 3,13 and 3,11-12). The analysis performed shows that the judgment of God to our first ancestors, does not aim to bring out the sin with the purpose of issuing a sentence of condemnation, but is basically a rîb, that is, a call to conversion.
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