Summary:

Episode 2 explores our understandings of Creation accounts within the Bible and in historical traditions, including theories for Eden’s location and the impact Renaissance art on Western images of Adam and Eve, the serpent, and cherubim.

Episode links:

“The cave of Machpelah (Part one),” The Zohar, Kabbalah Centre International, https://www.zohar.com/zohar/Chayei%20Sarah/chapters/14

The Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs: https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/11/02/the-secrets-of-the-cave-of-the-patriarchs/

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Adam and Eve, Ca. 1550. Oil on canvas. https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/adam-and-eve/e0ca4331-fb89-47a7-9ba0-be0ece23426b.

The destruction of the temple at Ain Dara: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42858265

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