THE BIBLICAL HISTORY OF THE CRIMINAL LAW AND THE FIRST OFFENSE
The article, on the basis of ancient texts of Genesis of the Old Testament and their interpretations as contained in the theological and legal literature, discusses the biblical version of the divine origin of criminal law, examines the form and content of the first provisions of criminal law. The author through the prism of the categories of the modern doctrine of criminal law analyzes the content of the wrongfulness and the nature of the punishment for the first crime in the biblical history - the fall of Adam and Eve. The fall is shown from the point of view of the Christianconcept of criminal law, as well as its relation as an archetype of criminal acts with other crimes. The richness of normative and historical material for legal studies of the ancient origins of many criminal-legal norms and institutions contained in the first book of the Scripture is highlighted