Adam and Eve: parents of humanity, or characters in a dark Near Eastern myth about wisdom, mortality, and the limits of being human?

Tristan Hughes and Dr Dylan Johnson strip away the Sunday school varnish to re-examine the story of Adam and Eve, starting with the question, Was there really an apple? They discuss the origins and multiple layers within the story and consider Eden as a royal garden, and the tale of lost immortality that echoes through Gilgamesh, Sumerian rivers, and the earliest biblical texts.