The antediluvian period is the time period chronicled in the Bible between the fall of man and the Genesis flood narrative in biblical cosmology. The term was coined by Thomas Browne. The narrative ta
The Creation, beginning of the Antediluvian (i.e., Pre-Flood) world. (Artist's rendition by James Tissot.)
Noah prepares to leave the antediluvian world, Jacopo Bassano and assistants, 1579
Strata of "Secondary rock", Lyme Regis
The Deluge subsides, thought in early geology to be responsible for the formation of sediments, with only traces of the antediluvian world. Thomas Cole, 1829
The fall of man, the fall of Adam, or simply the Fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guil
Antediluvian
…The antediluvian (alternatively pre-diluvian or pre-flood) period is the time period chronicled in the Bible between the fall of man and the Genesis flood narrative in biblical cosmology. The term was coined by Thomas Browne (1605–1682). The narrative takes up chapters 1–6 (excluding…
Adam, Eve, and a female serpent at the entrance to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. The depiction of the serpent as a mirror of Eve was common in earlier Christian iconography, which portrayed women as the source of the original sin and responsible for the fall of man.
The Fall and Expulsion from Paradise, fresco painted by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City (1510–1564)
Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, 1828 oil-on-canvas painting by Thomas Cole (1801–1848), now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, United States.
A lion-faced, serpentine deity found on a Gnostic gem in Bernard de Montfaucon's L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures may be a depiction of the Demiurge.