"What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden"

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StephenGoranson
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"What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden"

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by Prof. Jack Sasson
recently posted at
https://www.thetorah.com/article/what-r ... en-of-eden
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Re: "What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden"

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It's always a delight (ששון) to hear from Sasson (ששון). Sephardic name. Never met a Sephardic person who wasn't into kabbalah (except scholars of course). Even eating at a Sephardic home can be kabbalistic.
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Re: "What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden"

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Worth noting: Sasson presents this as within Mesopotamian [[not Greek]] tradition etiological stories.
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Re: "What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden"

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As an esteemed Assyriologist would. His family is from that part of the world.
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