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Masaccio: Expulsion of Adam and Eve

Fall of Man depicted by Gustave Doré

Adriaen de Vries: Cain Killing Abel

Albrecht Dürer: Adam and Eve

Gustave Doré illustration for Paradise Lost

Titian: Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

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tree of knowledge Fall complex Old Testament Why is the Bible divided into Old and New Testaments?Septuagint Targum Masoretic text Hexapla

Key People

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Michael Baius

Belgian theologian