Abstract
Abstract Not a Fall of Woman, but a Fanal for Education for Freedom in the Bible’s Creation Story The article aims at a re-evaluation of the so-called Fall of Man narrative in Genesis 2:4–3:24, which since the early church interpretation has been linked to the loss of the image of God, which man had lost because he had partaken of the tree of knowledge in a forbidden way, whereby the woman is assigned a special guilt because she had seduced the man. This, however, was in no way the intention of the authors of this story in the 4th century BCE. Rather, the story is in dialogue with late-wisdom texts that, on the one hand, deny man the knowledge of good and evil, such as Qohelet and Job 28, or consider this knowledge to be a creative endowment of man, so Ben Sira. According to Gen 2–3, God has granted man the freedom of choice, which man can and does fail at, which is to be countered in the book of Deuteronomy by a complex theory of education.
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