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Author:

Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943- author.

Title:

The rise and fall of Adam and Eve / Stephen Greenblatt.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton & Company,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Eve--(Biblical figure)
Adam--(Biblical figure)
Eden.
Fall of man.
Anthropology.
Religion & Spirituality.
Nonfiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-391) and index.

Contents:

Prologue: In the house of worship -- Bare bones -- By the waters of Babylon -- Clay tablets -- The life of Adam and Eve -- In the bathhouse -- Original freedom, original sin -- Eve' s murder -- Embodiments -- Chastity and its discontents -- The politics of paradise -- Becoming real -- Men before Adam -- Falling away -- Darwin's doubts -- Epilogue: In the forest of Eden.

Summary:

Stephen Greenblatt explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents. Tracking the tale into the deep past, Greenblatt uncovers the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural investment over centuries that made these fictional figures so profoundly resonant in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim worlds and, finally, so very "real" to millions of people even in the present.

ISBN:

0393240800 (hardcover)
9780393240801 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)971354359

LCCN:

2017014743

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