ENGL 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Flowing Rivers
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Parable: a story or short narrative designed to reveal allegorically some religious principle, moral lesson, psychological reality, or general truth. Rather than using abstract discussion, a parable always teaches by comparison with real or literary occurrences- especially homey everyday occurrences a wide number of people can relate to. The torah (hebrew bible) sometimes called the old testament, consists of the first 5 stories of the. Adam and eve created by god on the sixth day, Made to care for animals and plants in the garden of eden. Garden of eden: beautiful, full of plants four flowing rivers. God tells them to eat from any tree except the tree of knowledge, good and evil. Serpent persuades them to eat from it, infuriating god. God kicks them out of eden, makes them mortal, able to die, and creates pain for them, such as hunger and childbirth. Both make offerings to god, abel brought his first choice of sheep and cain brought fruit.
