Eden: The Buried Treasure - Couverture souple

Wood-Langford, Eve

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1449019528 ISBN 13 : 9781449019525

Editeur : AuthorHouseUK, 2009

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Can the concept of original sin truly be founded on the beautiful Genesis creation story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden? Only if the story is misinterpreted in terms of literal truth which entails belief in an articulate serpent. But when the story is interpreted as myth-history - not literal history - this important myth records a unique, fundamental and uplifting event in the human story. The garden paradise pre-dates the written Old Testament, having circulated in Abraham's country of Mesopotamia in the second millennium BC incorporated in some of the world's oldest literature: the epic poem of Gilgamesh. Behind the naked figures of Adam and Eve stands an earlier naked couple whose 'history' should certainly be preserved in Genesis. However, interpretation of this 'history' in literal terms and from the standpoint of monotheism turns that ancient 'history' on its head. During its long life the story of the first man to enter the garden paradise has been interpreted differently from at least four differing standpoints: Mesopotamian polytheism, the revolution of patriarchal monotheism, Christian monotheism, and the standpoint of science. At its origins, however, this priceless 'history' had nothing to do with the origin of sin. On the contrary, that interpretation throws the baby out with the bathwater. Look at the story in terms of myth, and in sympathy with its integral guiding images of serpent and tree and the garden reveals its long-buried treasure of truth.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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 stands 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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: AuthorHouseUK
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1449019528
• ISBN 13: 9781449019525
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296