Dr. Dylan Johnson

And this is, of course, the first woman.

So the woman is created from his rib.

So from a component of this being that is partially made from the earth, but also containing at least some part of the divine essence in him, woman is created secondarily.

And this is very interesting because in Genesis 1, man and woman are created at the same time, and both are created in the image of God.

Whereas here, and this is interested feminist interpreters, the woman seems to be derivative, secondary to the creation of man.

So you can imagine how that's been taken in different directions.

So the key part of the story is the introduction of two trees.

The first tree is what's known as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

And the second tree is known as the tree of life.

To be revealed very shortly, that is really the tree of eternal life.

We also get a fairly enigmatic reference to a river, and a river that springs up.

This is not the aid that had fed the garden before.

No, the underground river.

Not the underground river, a different river, a nahar, so a different word.

A river that then splits into four, and we don't exactly know the precise significance of it, but we have some good guesses.

So the river splits into four.

Some of which we know and some of which we don't know.

So it mentions that this river of the garden becomes the Tigris.

It becomes the Euphrates.

It becomes the Gihon, which is actually a tiny little stream in Jerusalem.