Word: vendedad
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Dates: during 1894-1894
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...said, would be composed of fragmentary thoughts suggested by the verse in Genesis where the Serpent says to Eve: "Your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good from evil." The story of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden, was found in the Vendedad, though the chief attribute of the Parsee Areman was that of a mischief-maker. In both accounts, there is a marked anthropomorphism. God, in jealous anger at man's divine knowledge of good and evil drives him away from the garden. It was not strange that St. Paul, the first...
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