Yielded with coy submission, modest pride
And sweet reluctant amorous delay. ibid. 1:310
Adam, the goodliest man o men since born
His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. ibid. 4:323
These two
Emparadised in one another’s arms
The happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill
Of bliss on bliss. ibid. 4:505
God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more
Is woman’s happiest knowledge and her praise.
With thee conversing I forget all time. ibid. 4:637
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring, sole propriety
In Paradise of all things common else. ibid. 4:750
Him there they found
Squat like a tad, close at the ear of Eve. ibid. 4:799
But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee
Came not all hell broke loose? ibid. 4:917
The serpent subtlest beast of all the field. ibid. 9:86
God so commanded, and left that command
Sole daughter of his voice; the rest, we live
Law to our selves, our reason is our law. ibid.
Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate:
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe
That all was lost. ibid. 9:780
O fairest of creation, last and best
Of all God’s works. ibid. 9:896
Flesh of flesh,
Bone of my bone thou art, we are one,
One flesh; to lose thee were to lose my self. ibid. 9:957
Then wilt thou not be loath
To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess
A paradise within thee, happier far. ibid. 12:585
In me is no delay; with thee to go,
Is to stay here; without thee here to stay,
Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me
Art all things under heaven, all places thou,
Who for my wilful crime art banished hence. ibid. 12:615
They looking back all the eastern side beheld
Of Paradise, so late their happy set. ibid. 12:641
The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide:
They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way. ibid. 12:646
Was Eve the world’s first sinner or was she the bringer of knowledge? Mysteries of the Bible s1e9: Scarlet Women of the Bible, A&E 1994
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. Clarence Darrow
Lilith therefore is the first person to refuse God’s command. Martin Palmer
Paradise lost: it’s a story central to Christianity justifying the need for a saviour. For centuries Adam and Eve have been viewed as the archetypal man and woman. Dr Francesca Stavrakopou, Bible’s Buried Secrets: The Real Garden of Eden 3/3, BBC 2012
I think the real story of Eden is too important to ignore. ibid.
It’s not just Christians who have read into the story details which are just not there. ibid.
It’s had a very negative impact in the way women are viewed. ibid.
I think it was a particular place in history. And there are clues to the real Eden in the Bible itself ... A garden constructed by human hands much later in history. ibid.
I think Eden was a garden built by humans for their God. ibid.
I think Adam was originally a king too. ibid.
There’s another version of the Eden story [Ezekiel 28] rich in detail and which many scholars believe is older than the Genesis version. In it there is no Eve and no serpent. ibid.
I think Eden was in the city of Jerusalem ... Everything points to the Jerusalem Temple being the real Eden. But how can a temple, bricks and mortar, be a garden? ibid.
The Biblical portrayal of the Jerusalem Temple is almost identical to the remains of this ancient temple in Syria – Ain Dara. ibid.
The Garden of Eden was found inside the Temple. ibid.
There’s no reference in Genesis to the snake being Satan the Devil. So what exactly is it doing in the story? ibid.
And it’s not just Eve who is ultimately condemned. It’s all of womankind. A damning indictment, but we now know that this was never the original intention of the Eden story. ibid.
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. Genesis 2:8-10
And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis 2:15-17
And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. Genesis 2:19&20
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. Genesis 3:1-7
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman. Genesis 3:15, God to snake
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiple thy sorrow and conception. Genesis 3:16, God to Eve
Cursed is the ground for thy sake ... Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee ... In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread. Genesis 3:17-19
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. Genesis 3:23&24
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. Genesis 4:1&2
There too Lilith shall repose, and find a place to rest. There shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow. Isaiah 3:14-15
And the third was named Gadreel: he it is who showed the children of men all the blows of death, and he led astray Eve. Enoch 2:69:6