This article reads Genesis in the light of older Mesopotamian material, including the Eridu Genesis, Atrahasis, Gilgamesh, and the Sumerian King List. It explores Eden, the serpent, cherubim, Yahweh, and the Psalms as part of a wider ancient Near Eastern world of memory, symbolism, guarded sacred space, and troubled divine-human relations.
A demythologised reading of Genesis and the Gospels reveals a single thread running through human history: we are conflicted, powerful, unstable creatures trying to understand ourselves. Eden describes why we are dangerous; Jesus offers a path to inner transformation. Later doctrine turned this into metaphysics, but the original insight was psychological. This article explores Adam, Meister Eckhart, the Synoptics, and the Sumerian myths as early attempts to explain the divided human self — and what redemption really meant.