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  2. Pesher on Genesis - Wikipedia

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    The fragments are quite small in size and show the very bottom of columns on a commentary of Genesis. Unfortunately, due to the poor state of the fragments, scholars are unable to determine the size of what the full manuscript would have been. Frg. 1 = 3.1 x 3.9 cm Frg. 2 = 5.2 x 6.2 cm (two joined pieces) Frg. 3 = 3.2 x 3.0 cm

  3. Let there be light - Wikipedia

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    de Holanda, Francisco (1545), "The First Day of Creation", De Aetatibus Mundi Imagines. " Let there be light " is an English translation of the Hebrew יְהִי אוֹר ‎ ( yehi 'or) found in Genesis 1:3 of the Torah, the first part of the Hebrew Bible. In Old Testament translations of the phrase, translations include the Greek phrase ...

  4. Genesis creation narrative - Wikipedia

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    The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity. [1] The narrative is made up of two stories, roughly equivalent to the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis. In the first, Elohim (the Hebrew generic word for god) creates the heavens and the Earth in six days, then rests on, blesses, and sanctifies ...

  5. Seventh-day Adventist Commentary Reference Series - Wikipedia

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    The Seventh-day Adventist Commentary Reference Series is a set of volumes produced primarily by Seventh-day Adventist scholars, and designed for both scholarly and popular level use. It includes the seven-volume Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, the two-volume Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, as well as the single volumes Seventh-day ...

  6. Genesis Apocryphon - Wikipedia

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    The Genesis Apocryphon was one of the seven major scrolls found at Qumran in Cave 1. It is one of the collection in the Dead Sea Scrolls, which has over 800 documents in fragmentary form. All documents have been found in various states of preservation in twelve caves of the cliffs that parallel the northwest shore of the Dead Sea and in the ...

  7. Allegorical interpretations of Genesis - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Allegorical interpretations of Genesis are readings of the biblical Book of Genesis that treat elements of the narrative as symbols or types, rather than viewing them literally as recording historical events. Either way, Judaism and most sects of Christianity treat Genesis as canonical scripture, and believers generally regard it as ...

  8. Anchor Bible Series - Wikipedia

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    The Anchor Bible Series, which consists of a commentary series, a Bible dictionary, and a reference library, [1] is a scholarly and commercial co-venture which was begun in 1956, with the publication of individual volumes in the commentary series. Over 1,000 scholars—representing Jewish, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, Muslim, secular ...

  9. Fall of man - Wikipedia

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    The fall of man, the fall of Adam, or simply the Fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience. [1] The doctrine of the Fall comes from a biblical interpretation of Genesis, chapters 1–3. [1]