A fascinating article for a non- academic like me. I have often felt, as a reader, that this particular Genesis story may really be about the dawn if human consciousness (and self-conscious), and to locate the origins of the story in Mesopotamia when there was a certain development of human agricultural activity, itself indicative of a certain cerebral development, makes sense to me. The Fall itself (being cast out of Eden) is the loss of pre-conscious innocence, I feel, and the loss of the garden a literary figure for the biological development of mankind. The story may also be a kind of 'dreaming back', such as humankind is prone to and the garden-like developments referred to in the article may be an inspiration for this.
A fascinating article for a non- academic like me. I have often felt, as a reader, that this particular Genesis story may really be about the dawn if human consciousness (and self-conscious), and to locate the origins of the story in Mesopotamia when there was a certain development of human agricultural activity, itself indicative of a certain cerebral development, makes sense to me. The Fall itself (being cast out of Eden) is the loss of pre-conscious innocence, I feel, and the loss of the garden a literary figure for the biological development of mankind. The story may also be a kind of 'dreaming back', such as humankind is prone to and the garden-like developments referred to in the article may be an inspiration for this.