"That there is no real doctrine of original sin in the Hebrew Bible is a foregone conclusion in contemporary scholarship. The major point of view in the Old Testament regarding the origins of evil is the notion that God gives each human being two imaginations[,] a good and an evil one. Evil is committed in the Old Testament view when one uses his will in the service of the yeser ha-ra, the evil imagination."
-- The Image of the Biblical Job: A History, Volume Two: Job in the Medieval World, Stephen Vicchio, 2006, p. 16.
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