- Paperback: 296 pages
- Publisher: AuthorHouse (4 Sep 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1449019528
- ISBN-13: 978-1449019525
- Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 20.3 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,259,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Almost all the constituents of the beautiful Genesis creation story of Adam and Eve predate the written Old Testament by centuries. The story of the first man to enter the garden paradise had origin in Abraham's country of Mesopotamia as part of one of the world's oldest poems. This ancient work enshrines the story of the creation of an man from clay, the consequential meeting of a naked man and woman, and incorporates a serpent with a human head. At their origins, however, these pre-biblical records had nothing to do with the concept of original sin.
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Eve Wood-Langford is a Unitarian, raised to accept Jesus as a human being, a prophet and sublime teacher of ethics. From this unorthodox standpoint the magnificent Eden creation account does not appear as the biblical illustration of original sin, but as a fabulous creation myth, complete with articulate serpent, long misinterpreted in the Judaic/Christian tradition of monotheism. Behind the naked figures of Adam and Eve stand a much earlier naked couple whose story preserves an important and inspirational 'history', a treasure from the ancestral world having nothing to do with human downfall and disgrace.
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Mrs Langford's refreshing look at the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden makes the reader realise that Eve was a heroine and not a villain. There is no 'original sin' in the myth. Without Eve we should not have known of good and evil. The denigration of women throughout the ages, and certainly since the early Church Fathers, has been a great mistake. This book deserves a wide readership.
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All the components of the beautiful Genesis creation myth of Adam and Eve pre-date the written Old Testament by many centuries, but at their origins the story of the first man to set foot in the garden paradise, and the record of a consequential meeting between a naked couple had nothing to do with the origin of sin.
When the original pre-biblical stories circulated in Abraham's country of Mesopotamia ,the story of the naked couple preserved an anthropological message for the ancient world. Look into the garden paradise from the standpoint of myth-history, not literal history, and the images in Eden still guard that spiritually uplifting meaning - a gift from the ancestral world of value to all human beings even today.
When the original pre-biblical stories circulated in Abraham's country of Mesopotamia ,the story of the naked couple preserved an anthropological message for the ancient world. Look into the garden paradise from the standpoint of myth-history, not literal history, and the images in Eden still guard that spiritually uplifting meaning - a gift from the ancestral world of value to all human beings even today.
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Misunderstanding Eden
25 Jan 2010
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The author takes the position that the Garden of Eden story has been "misunderstood" especially by Christianity. She seeks Eden's origin in Mesopotamian myths, primarily, but not exclusively, the Epic of Gilgamesh. She notes that the "original" Mesopotamian story had a different point of view from that later given it by Christians. Adam is a fusion of Enkidu and Gilgamesh, Eve is Shamhat, the Serpent is Ningizzida. The bejeweled trees of the Sun-god, Shamash Gilgamesh stumbles into becomes for her Eden's pre-biblical prototype. For her, the Eden story incapsulates that moment in time when man came to obtain wisdom and knowledge which would end his existence as a wild animal and become a clothes-wearing human-being creating cities and civilization. The notion that Enkidu and Shamhat were recast as Adam and Eve has been around since 1898 when Professor Jastrow of the University of Pennsylvania first wrote on this subject in scholarly professional journals and tomes.
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