Adam, Eve, and the Devil: A New Beginning, Second Enlarged Edition - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

In this book the authors develop an intriguing theory about theCanaanite origin of the biblical traditions concerning the originof the cosmos and the creation of humankind. Adam, Eve, andthe Devil tells a new story about human beginnings and at thesame time proposes a fresh start for biblical research into primordialtraditions.A number of clay tablets from Ugarit, dating from the late thirteenthcentury BCE, throw new light, Korpel and de Moor argue,on the background of the first chapters of Genesis and the mythof Adam. In these tablets, El, the creator deity, and his wifeAsherah lived in a vineyard or garden on the slopes of Mt Ararat,known in the Bible as the mountain where Noah’s ark cameto rest. The first sinner was not a human being, but an evil godcalled Horon who wanted to depose El. Horon was throwndown from the mountain of the gods, and in revenge he transformedthe Tree of Life in the garden into a Tree of Death andenveloped the whole world in a poisonous fog. Adam was sentdown to restore life on earth, but failed because Horon in theform of a huge serpent bit him. As a result Adam and his wifelost their immortality.This myth found its way into the Bible, the Apocrypha and thePseudepigraphical literature, though it was often transformed ortreated critically. Adam, Eve, and the Devil traces the reception ofthe myth in its many forms, and also presents the oldest picturesof Adam and Eve ever identified (one of them on the frontcover of the book).

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