The ORIGIN for GENESiS is much OLDER than you think

You, sir, are a great storyteller. And the subjects you talk about are spot on. Thank you for your hard work!

Man this channel is so underrated. Your deep understanding of your subject is fascinating. Kudos to you and your outstanding content 👏👏

I feel conflicted that this was posted on Fool’s Day but I also love that connection at the same time. Cheers for this!

The Garden of Eden was supposed to be where the Tigris, Euphrates etc flowed out, presumably out from and into the sea, hence 'Eden' was in the Gulf. Was the Expulsion a distant memory of the rising sea level after the last ice age and people being forced to give up the hunter-gatherer lives and forced to take up agriculture to survive? i.e. having to work rather than just wander about naked with their partners in a pleasant, warm, lush environment with all food easily at hand. Sounds like paradise to me.

Thanks for this. For 30 years I've been saying the first couple pages of Genesis reads like "the story so far" and we were missing an earlier tale that is then continued in The Bible.

Chapters: 1:00 Intro: The Bible a Collection of Stories 2:02 The Cosmogony 9:54 The Creation of Humans 14:55 The Garden of Eden 17:15 Immortality and Sin 22:59 Cain and Abel 26:56 The Flood 29:32 The Tower of Babel 31:58 Genesis A Greatest Hits of Mythology?

Thoroughly enjoyed this, thank you! In, IIRC, the first book of Enoch the 'knowledge' gained from eating the fruit is of pottery, textiles and metalworking. I wonder if this distinction between in and out of Eden is in fact a folk recollection of the shift from hunter-gatherer nomadic lifestyles to more agricultural and settled ones. I'm sure, just like now, people looked back on the past with rose-tinted spectacles and thought everything was better in the 'good old days.'

I studied religious studies in uni and one of my professors brought up an interesting point in passing once, which was to say that the story also kind of follows hunter gather lifestyle to farming lifestyle. Like they just wander around in this garden with fruit and wild animals, then they sin and now they have to farm the land for food. Could be an explination for why people had to farm

You should make an annotated version of Genesis, I would happily buy that

Bit of a missed opportunity to not call this "the genesis of the Genesis", but hey, a new video on the 1st day of the month. Hope you can have a great April

South East Asian flood myths about 30,000 years ago, is about the time modern humans were migrating across land bridges to Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia. This would also include times people on Taiwan were building sea going boats and sailing to the Philippines, New Guinea and possibly other places. (e.g. The Aeta people have been living on the Philippines for about 40,000 years and apparently sailed there from Taiwan!) In this context, flood myths might (also) be memories of surviving the devastation of great typhoons!

It's fascinating to see all the elements from different myths which were combined

I really enjoy your videos. You make so much sense and add so much to my interpretation of prehistory.

Hell yeah, I wanna hear your version of the Bible. People gotta understand. This isn’t just about religion, philosophy, and scientific research. It’s also about storytelling. I say we hear this man’s version of the story.

Great work! I'm new to the channel and will spend the next few weeks watching all your content. Absolutely fantastic storytelling and ability to weave multiple narratives together into a cohesive video. Cheers 🥂

Uhh 20:05 "We suggest that these edible fruits were gathered from parthenocarpic trees grown from intentionally planted branches. Hence, fig trees could have been the first domesticated plant of the Neolithic Revolution, which preceded cereal domestication by about a thousand years." Sumerian stone tablets dating back to 2500 B.C. record culinary use of figs !

I can’t wait for your book! I noticed the similarities between Egyptian mythology and Greek mythology when I was younger and when I read the Bible, the similarities in their made me realize it was just stories all combined together. It was until I decided to look into the oldest written mythology, Mesopotamian mythology, that I really saw the where it all came from originally with major changes obviously. I do want to look into other mythologies too but they’re too long and I don’t have as much time. Looking forward to your work?

Great video ! I was waiting for this topic to be addressed for a while.

Amun to that! Great vid. I seem to see you become more relaxed and having more fun as a video presenter. You present it all so well!

Awesome! I have been waiting for someone to make this, thanks Crecganford! Love it.