Wallis served 33 years in the Anglican Church in Australia as an archdeacon, theological educator, and hermeneutics teacher. Escaping from Eden (2020), followed by The Scars of Eden, Echoes of Eden, and The Eden Conspiracy, applies standard source-critical observations: Genesis is a composite text, redacted around the 6th century BC, its elohim and Yahweh layers imperfectly merged. George Noory called it this generation's Chariots of the Gods.
Wallis revives the church's oldest heresy with better Hebrew: Marcion of Sinope read the Old Testament god's violence and declared him a different, lesser being than the Father Jesus preached. The church erased Marcion so thoroughly that his gospel survives only in his enemies' quotations. Wallis separates the True God from the managers on the same grounds: the character evidence.
The strong form: the elohim are powerful but embodied beings, the Sky People of the older Sumerian file, running a managed species; the Flood and Babel are interventions against human development; and the church's heresy hunts of the 2nd and 3rd centuries were institutional forgetting, the cover story canonized. Eden is not where we fell. It is what we escaped.
When the insider uses the institution's own methods to reach the heretical reading, which carries more weight: the conclusion, or the career it cost?