Lots of "ifs and buts". But it seems as if two Dutch researchers have found a version of the story of Adam and Eve that predates Genesis by five centuries.
It's a pretty interesting find, at least in my view. OTOH, it might just be another case of parallelomania.
http://www.sheffieldphoenix.com/showbook.asp?bkid=271
Couldn't find any related articles in English just yet. Perhaps the discovery needs some time to percolate throughout the community.A number of clay tablets from Ugarit, dating from the late thirteenth century BCE, throw new light, Korpel and de Moor argue, on the background of the first chapters of Genesis and the myth of Adam. In these tablets, El, the creator deity, and his wife Asherah lived in a vineyard or garden on the slopes of Mt Ararat, known in the Bible as the mountain where Noah’s ark came to rest. The first sinner was not a human being, but an evil god called Horon who wanted to depose El. Horon was thrown down from the mountain of the gods, and in revenge he transformed the Tree of Life in the garden into a Tree of Death and enveloped the whole world in a poisonous fog. Adam was sent down to restore life on earth, but failed because Horon in the form of a huge serpent bit him. As a result Adam and his wife lost their immortality.
It's a pretty interesting find, at least in my view. OTOH, it might just be another case of parallelomania.
http://www.sheffieldphoenix.com/showbook.asp?bkid=271