- translation and notes by Jack Crabtree
The second part of Genesis deals with the creation of man, the creation of woman, the murder of Abel by Cain, and the emergence of two distinct spiritual lines of human beings. In the near future, Jack hopes to publish a paper that fully explores how to understand this account in Genesis. That paper, when completed, will reflect and be based on the interpretation of Genesis 2:4b–5:1a that is embodied in this translation and its accompanying notes.
Jack proposes a rather controversial, non-traditional interpretation of this account. Most notably, he rejects the traditional understanding of the fall of mankind and the origin of sin. He sees eating the forbidden fruit as a failed test rather than the beginning and origin of sin. He sees the account as a straightforward, factually-accurate historical account, not an etiological myth. And he proposes that Eve was not tempted by a snake, but by Satan himself.
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