Most of us, even if we are not Christians, will know the Bible story of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden – or think we do. In fact, the Book of Genesis says very little about Eden, and nothing really about what it was like or what, apart from the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge, grew in it. I suspect that whatever else you think you know it’s because the story of Eden is the most popular Old Testament subject in Christian art, and you’ve simply absorbed the way that artists have imagined it. Do you even know where it was? Most of us I’m sure would say without much hesitation – somewhere in the Middle East, but you might be surprised to know that about eighty different locations have been proposed – from the Baltic to Polynesia, and from the North Pole to China, via Kashmir, the Seychelles, and of course several states of America. This talk explores all this and more!
GARDEN HISTORY TALKS 