Before the Fall, Adam and Eve were in a state of innocence, which ended when they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The snake that tempted Eve was said to be more “shrewd” than ...

All right. If the Tree Of Life is a person, then the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is a person ALSO. It can't be otherwise. Thus the Righteous One and the Wicked One stood side by side there ...

Lily Feinn imagines, in illustrations by Marian Blair, a satirical list of little-known tree varieties in Eden, in addition to the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

In popular lore, Adam and Eve’s consumption of the taboo meal from the illicit Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, as it is called in the Bible, resulted in their expulsion from Eden.

In the Genesis creation story, Adam and Eve are warned against eating from “the tree of knowledge of good and evil” (2:16).But in the Garden of Eden, the plot moves quickly, when the snake, in ...

When I read the Genesis story as a kid, I regarded it as a warning never to disobey God lest I, too, be punished. Now, as an adult, it seems to me that Adam and Eve were punished not for ...