Where Did the Adam and Eve Tale Come From

I think it's safe to assume the entire Bible came from camp fire stories that predated the written word. Yes, there is the occasional personality that can be verified from third party sources but that is the exception rather than the rule.

The reason to conclude this is that folktales have been written down for hundreds of years. Many of them predate those told in the Old and New Testament. Where and when these tales started we can never be certain. But, when there is evidence one existed long before the time the Old Testament was written we can suspect the OT stories predated OT writers.

Then there is the inconsistency within the Bible. There are two creation stories in two different chapters Genesis. The days when various things were created is different. In one Adam and Eve were created before the animals. This is reversed in the other. In one "light" is created days before the sun.

Critics say the two versions came from two different threads of story telling. Perhaps they were put into the Bible without being reconciled because no one back then thought they were literal accounts anyway.

I looked up to see how believers reconciled the dilemma. There were arguments about translations and perspective. Their clincher was that Jesus talked about the two chapters and did not notice the difference so there must not be one. Of course, if Jesus never said this it is not a valid argument.

In the folklore of an isolated island in Polynesia is a story a creator who made the first woman out of the first man. Then that creator put them on an earthly paradise where they lived in beauty and splendor. But, alas, there was a "Tree of Death" and they were instructed not to eat its fruit. A snake told the woman to go ahead. She gave some to the man.

The rest of the tale from isolated Polynesia is familiar too. Too bad the ancient story tellers could not get royalties from every copy of the Bible.