Dr. Dylan Johnson

Of course, these are the big questions.

Those core questions that really troubled the ancient Judah Hydra.

Right.

Yeah.

It's the dead giveaway for God that they have eaten from the fruit.

Right.

Because once they gain consciousness by eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they're aware of shame for the first time.

So they make loincloths as, you know, the thousands and thousands of artistic representations of Adam and Eve have have always relied on last week to pick them actually naked.

So we have little fig leaves covering up the fig leaves.

There you go.

Convenient.

Yeah, exactly.

More support from receptionist history.

So it's the dead giveaway that they've disobeyed this one rule that they, well, two rules, but one of the two rules that they had.

And it's a sign of this consciousness that they start to wear clothes because they feel shame.

And this is probably the point where it's good to digress a little bit outside the biblical text.

Because what clothes represent in that text, that of shame, is one way to kind of interpret it.

But I like to kind of, especially in my capacity as a biblical scholar and an ancient Near Eastern historian, is to just read creation stories more widely and see how these motifs and themes recur.

In other cultures, neighboring cultures, roughly contemporaneous cultures.

And we see a lot of recurrent themes.