You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain blazed with fire to the very skies, with black clouds and deep darkness. (Deuteronomy 4:11)

I said, “You are Elohim; you are all sons of Elyon. But you will die like Adam; you will fall like every other ruler.” (Psalm 82:6-7)

As we said, the term [ruach] is commonly translated as “spirit.”

The same is not said of any of the other patriarchs. This indicates that Seth was probably created by some particular intervention of the Elohim, of the sort we have seen in the previous chapters.

which are named in succession: Sumer, Ur, Meluhha, Dilmun, Elam, Marhasi, Martu, Tigris, Euphrates, the marshy region, and the sea.

Also, if we translate [seneh] as “bush,” then we must admit it is a very crowded bush! There are at least two individuals in the [seneh], the [malakh] and Yahweh.

It is a rather striking statement that

DNA immediately comes to mind. Furthermore, Sumerian accounts tell the story of how the element to be inserted to make man was taken from the purified blood of Anunnaki males.

A possible literal translation of Genesis 2:8 would then be: “Elohim Yahweh planted a garden in Eden from [the] ancient one,” where “ancient” could possibly refer to an “earlier, primeval Eden,” thus indicating the existence of some kind of Eden archetype from which other Edens might be derived. These other Edens were probably planted in different