The Making of a Nation The Beginnings of Israel's History

ments which are found in the story may likewise be traced in earlier Semitic traditions. The aim of the prophet who has given us the story was, according to the view of certain interpreters,

ling in the mind of the woman against her sense of duty. Note that in the story the temptation did not come to man through his appetite or his curiosity or his esthetic sense but through his wife whom God had given him. Was the man's act in any way excusable? Strong men and women often sin through the influence of those

r sin (which means to miss the mark placed before each individual) vividly and aptly describes the real nature of sin. The ideal placed bef