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Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says that the second account of creation in Genesis is independent of the first, differing not only in content but also in tone, mood and orientation. As the story opens, the earth is hard, dry and lacking in vegetation, yet every shrub and every herb are latently present, awaiting the right conditions to spring forth. This is very different from the first account, in which God says on the third day, "Let the earth bring forth grass ..."

The independence of the two creation stories means we must scrupulously avoid reading into the second story any facts or notions taken from the first. Thus, in reading about the origin of man in the story of the Garden of Eden, we must not think that man was created in God's image or that man is to be the ruler over the animals.

Like all creation stories, it tells us how we came to be and why we are here, but it is a far more sophisticxated story than this. Kass says we can learn most from the story by regarding it as a mythical yet realistic portrait of permanent truths about our humanity, rather than as a historical yet idealised portrait of a blissful existence we once enjoyed but lost. More than anything, it is about man's longing for immortality.

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