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Resources

  • Bruce Waltke, An Old Testament Theology: An Exegetical, Canonical, and Thematic Approach, 257
  • William Osborne, Trees and Kings: A Comparative Analysis of Tree Imagery in Israel’s Prophetic Tradition and the Ancient Near East. 
  • Terje Stordalen, Echoes of Eden Genesis 2-3 and Symbolism of the Eden Garden in Biblical Hebrew Literature.
  • Charles Taylor, A Secular Age.

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