The rise and fall of Adam and Eve

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

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, a...

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Main Author: Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Edition:First edition
Subjects:
Eve > (Biblical figure)
Adam > (Biblical figure)
Eden.
Fall of man.
Anthropology.
Table of 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.

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