Reinterpreting the Bible: Adam and Eve (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; Robot Chicken (adultswim.com); J. Goldstein (thisamericanlife.org)

WARNING: Rated PG-13 for graphic language and pixelated nudity! 

There's a reason God endorsed a knowledge-is-bad policy in the Garden of Eden according to the "The Curious Case of The Box," a 2011 episode of Robot Chicken on Adult Swim. Would Eve, Adam, and the Snake have been better off remaining in the Friends' Zone?

 

Reinterpreting the Bible and the tale of Adam and Eve (Elhrich Gregor on Vimeo.com)

This animated reading is a re-interpretation of the Biblical tale of "Adam and Eve" written by Jonathan Goldstein, author of the book I'll Seize The Day Tomorrow and host of the CBC radio show WireTap: Here Goldstein rethinks what actually must have happened and reads a story from his Ladies and Gentleman, the Bible about the first people to ever have to start from scratch, a Sumerian (later converted to Jewish then Christian) couple named Ada[y] and Eve.

  

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