Reading Notes: Adam and Eve Part A


For this week's reading I decided to dive into the topic of Adam and Eve and the creation. For part A I read The Creation and The Fall from Genesis, King James Bible. The rest of the stories were from The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg (1909).


I found the story The Ideal Man very interesting, for it described Adam in far more detail than any version of the bible I have read. The story talk about Adam's decedents, describing features of Adam that they inherited, but none of them compared to him. Even his wife Eve was "but an ape compared with Adam". The story continues to tell the story of God breathing life into Adam, and placing all these responsibilities on him. This story gives Adam a lot more credit than the Bible does, alluding that it was Adam who vented language, writing, named all the animals, and even decided which part of the world people would inhabit!

 I think it would be fun to write a version of the Creation story of Adam and Eve from Michelangelo's perspective as he was painting them in the Sistine Chapel.


The Fall of Adam and Eve - Michelangelo Source: Wiki Images 

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