Listen "Cosmas the 6th Century Monk on the Genesis story"
Episode Synopsis
Cosmas the monk on Genesis. Cosmas Indicopleustes was a 6th Century Byzantine monk who wrote the book 'Christian Topography' in which he defends the concept of a flat Earth agains the pagan theories of a spherical Earth as well as talking about large chunks of the Genesis story from the Bible. Cosmas was well travelled having in his earlier years travelled as far as India and Sri Lanka. Cosmas attempts to explain the flaws in the Genesis story. Why for example was Eve created after Adam? Why God took six days to complete creation? Why didn't God kill Adam as threatened? and so on.
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