Eden: The Buried Treasure - Softcover

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.

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.