Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 91 No. 4, 2021.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.53745/bs.91.4.2
The Announcement of Death Penalty for the Transgression of Interdiction in the Book of Genesis 2:17b
Anto Popović
orcid.org/0000-0003-0190-2367
; Franciscan theology Sarajevo; Sarajevo, Bosna and Hercegovina
Abstract
This article analyses the announcement of death penalty for the transgression of God’s interdiction in Gen 2:17b. The analysis proceeds in three steps. In the first step, the term mot tamut (you will surely die), which announces the death penalty, is analysed. In the second step, the term bǝyom, which situates the execution of the penalty »on that day« of transgression, is analysed. In the third step, five contextual interpretations of these two terms (bǝyom and mot tamut), taken together, are discussed from the perspective of (non-)execution of the announced death penalty. It seems that the interpretation of the announced penalty in the sense of spiritual death has preferential priority over other interpretations, since it fits the best into the narrative logic of Gen 2–3.
Keywords
mot tamut / – you will surely die, bǝyom / – on that day
Hrčak ID:
275021
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Publication date:
15.3.2022.
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