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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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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.
"Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"Endlessly illuminating and a sheer pleasure to read." —Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography
Daring to take the great biblical account of human origins seriously, but without credulity.
The most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, acclaimed scholar Stephen
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