Hi, I'm Dr. Robert Holt, md. mph, again.  Starting in 1989 I accompanied an Adventist anesthesia nurse and amateur archaeologist from Nashville, Tennessee to the Holy Land, and specifically the Garden Tomb where he was confident he had found the Ark of the Covenant beneath where Jesus was crucified. We were not successful in retrieving it, but this began a series of adventures on may part that lasted until December of 1997.  After that I became more interested in who really wrote the Bible than in trying again and again to dig up or identify what was described therein.

    By now I know about "J" the Yahwist author that wrote about "God" only as YHWH.  And "E" whose God was really plural, but called Him/Them the "Elohim" as if it was a singular, not plural term.   And "P" the priestly writer, who felt that only he was qualified to describe "God".   And "R", the redactor, whose clever interpolations and rearrangements made it possible to believe that only one person, "Moses" had written the entire Torah, the so-called 5 books of Moses.  "J" wrote about Eve, and a lot of other clever women in those five famous books, so some believe "J" was actually a woman.  My vote goes for Bathsheba, wife of King David, and mother of Solomon.   She had both the cleverness and to opportunity.

      Because I read Zechariah Sitchin's books, the "Earth Chronicles" series beginning about 1990, when I visited Wyatt and Fasold's "Ark of Noah" to find out what was available to know about archaeology, I knew that "J" had not been a good copyist of what was known about the Elohim (Annunaki) and Adam and was available in Sumerian baked tablet books and cylinder seal pictures of pre-flood events.   Adam was created, Yes, but in a gene-splicing laboratory, not from a gob of red mud out in some prehistoric field.  

       And Eve was created in the same or a similar gene-splicing and in-vitro fertilization laboratory, not from a rib taken from Adam's side. 

Actors pose as Adapa and his sister Titi

     Give "J" high credits for imagination, but low credits for historical truthfulness. 

      Supposing "Adam" to be Adapa, the special son of the Elohim god Enki, who was in charge of the creation of humans, the following story explains how it was that Adapa ("Adam") lost out on the opportunity to live forever.  He was entrusted by his creator and actual father, the god Enki, to fly a space-craft to Nibiru, the equivalent to "Heaven" in those days, and the home of Anu, the father of the other gods.  Wishing to not lose his son, who he had great plans for here on earth, he told Adapa not to eat or drink anything the gods might offer him on the planet Nibiru, because if he did it would most certainly cause his immediate death.   This is so similar to the restriction "J" wrote in her story on eating from the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil" that my suspicion is aroused that "J" knew the original story of Adapa and changed it to satisfy a priestly agenda in her days in King Solomon's court.  Adapa, of course, refused to eat the "poison" bread of life and drink the "poison" water of life on Nibiru, and that's when mankind became forever and irreversibly mortal.    Eve, bless her soul, had absolutely nothing to do with Adapa's decision to follow the instructions of the god he knew and trusted.   Instead of some strange gods out in space that he had never met before.

     Later I read several versions of the Book of Enoch, a favorite book of the Essenes. Scraps of many copies were found in the caves near Qumran in the late 1940s and 1950s.  This book, the Book of Enoch, was freely quoted by Jesus, Peter, and Paul.   And the book of Jude, written by one of Jesus' brothers, quotes an entire chapter of The Book of Enoch.  The early church fathers banned the Book of Enoch, perhaps because Enoch persisted in identifying himself as "the Son of Man" and planned to judge the entire world at "the End of Days". But the excuse was that he knew too many angels by name, and talked too much about sexual intercourse occurring between angels and human women.    In Enoch, the fruit on the "Tree of Knowledge" was so fragrant and desirable that its odor permeated the entire garden of Eden, and was very beneficial to  those who ate of it.   Eve was not responsible for man-kind's sinfulness, but her daughters did pick  up some sinful habits and skills taught them by the angels they were sleeping with.  

All of us are indebted to Zechariah Sitchin, the famous Jewish researcher and linguist, who has made the findings of archaeologists and university professors available and affordable to the rest of us.  Including some new to us information on the Biblical Cain and Abel.

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