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Andreas, Readings

The Authorization of Suffering as a Tool of Conversion in Andreas

Andreas is a book of the travels and adventures of St. Andrew, or Andreas, as he attempts to save St. Matthew from a cannibalistic race of Mermedonians. However, it also allows for an inspection of the saintly suffering of a loyal follower of God, and how God’s reaction to Andreas’s torture reveals what God’s role is when faced with the suffering of his followers. At one point in the poem,…

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Genesis

Eating the Forbidden Fruit

Daniel Anlezark’s Old Testament Narratives explores the tale of Adam and Eve, but it allows for an inspection between the relationship of God and humans through the interesting dynamic of the Forbidden Fruit of Knowledge.  At the beginning of Genesis B, God commands Adam and Eve to “renounce that tree, guard yourselves against the fruit. For you two there will be no unsatisfied desire” (19). And Adam and Eve continued…

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