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The sacred texts, which are the embodiment of the transmission of the word of the Lord to people, have been among the important sources of many branches of literature and other arts for centuries. Especially the influence of the Bible on the formation of Western literature and culture is immense. Similarly, the Quran has influenced the majority of both classical Turkish literature and folk literature; it has supported them at the point of content and structure. Stories based on people from the Quran, events, exemplary tales and the verses that are guiding and suggesting truth enriched the content of many classical and modern works in Turkish literature. In the period of modernisation and its aftermath, sacred texts continued to intermingle and feed the novel and other narrative genres as a rich resource. Especially after postmodernism, the interest in sacred texts is displayed in different ways in narrative forms. The intertextuality theory, as usually accepted, which is associated and concurrent with postmodernism (around the 1960s), offered technical possibilities that enriched the novelism too. Postmodernism’s understanding of pluralism and its equalizing attitude that ignoring all kinds of differences especially embraces traditional narratives and scriptures. Traditional and religious texts are included in multi-layered structure of novel and become a method of displaying the pluralism through the intertextual techniques such as parody, pastiche and rewriting. So in this study, how the Turkish novel absorbed the sacred texts into its textures, structures and contents will be examined in the context of the Adam and Eve parable, especially after 1970s when the intertextuality started to be used as an intentional way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]