Comments on: The Bible as Ethnography ~ 03 ~ Sometimes a Snake is Just a Snake. But not in this case…. https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/29/the-bible-as-ethnography-03-so/ Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:19:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Moopheus https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/29/the-bible-as-ethnography-03-so/#comment-550215 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:19:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/29/the-bible-as-ethnography-03-so/#comment-550215 “Remember, the tree providing the forbidden fruit is the tree of knowledge.”

The text, at least in the translation I have at hand (the JPS Tanakh), calls it the “tree of knowledge of good and bad.” So presumably the knowledge is specifically moral knowledge, that is, eating the fruit is a loss of moral innocence, becoming adults, which I guess would include sexual knowledge.

“it is reasonable to suggest that God had been living off the land, and produced the Garden of Eden and humans to upgrade to irrigation”

You mean we weren’t genetically engineered by the Annunaki to mine gold for them to take back to Nibiru?

]]> By: Nathan Myers https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/29/the-bible-as-ethnography-03-so/#comment-550214 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:16:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/29/the-bible-as-ethnography-03-so/#comment-550214 The specific-tree theme is practically universal. Often it’s identified with the “world axis” that the stars rotate around.

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