History

This paper is in response to the chapter 5 of the book regarding Genesis and what it implicates about the prehistoric events and turns of the human civilization and how the historians perceive the history regardless to what the faithful think of it.

In this chapter the author argues that most ancient texts like Genesis could be interpreted differently when read with different perspective. The author then provides several chapters of the book of Genesis and then an article, which interprets the history of Genesis in a historians point of view. In this way the author wants to deliver the idea that such texts should not be limited to the most rigid and religious interpretations.

The author of the article argues that when the story of Genesis is read with a historians perspective it gives us some exciting insight about the prehistory of the mankind. When the story of Adam and Eve is compared with the knowledge available about the human prehistory, it reflects some interesting ideas about how the human civilization evolved from the hunter-gatherer period to the farming and agricultural era. According to the author the story implicates the beginning of the agriculture and who was responsible for it. It further implicates that it undervalued the role of man as hunter-gatherer thus forced him to do the womens job of cultivation. That is the primary reason of mens wrath on the women and why the women gradually became subordinate to the men.

The argument of the author that the stories of ancient texts, like the Genesis implicates something more than what is interpreted by the religious people quite appealing. Since most of these texts were compiled and written at a time which was much nearer than the prehistory than today, they new a great deal about it than we do today. Most of this knowledge was passed from generation to generation, from father to son and folklore, myths and legends. Most of these myths tell us about something important happened in the past and may be crucial for our understanding of human nature. There have been a long time passed after these events and most of them are lost even from the memories of the people who live in the region where these events occurred. They are only preserved in the form of these ancient lore, myths and legend. Thus these writings and texts have preserved a great deal of knowledge and history, which was otherwise lost to the mankind.

Since most of this information is encrypted in these ancient texts and hidden, because of the vague nature of these texts to speak about something, it is important to study these texts with the help of modern information available by archaeology and other modern technologies.

Thus in my opinion it is important to study and understand these texts in order to get better insight about the events and turning points of the human history. This may further help us to better know our past so that we can use it to better understand the human evolution, cultural and social development since the dawn of civilization.