The rise and fall of Adam and Eve / Stephen Greenblatt.
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TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First EditionDescription: 419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780393240801 (hardcover)
- 0393240800 (hardcover)
- 233/.14Â 23
- BS1237Â .G74 2017
| Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Coffeyville Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Coffeyville Public Library | Adult Books | 233.14 GREENBLATT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 38670101490163 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-391) and index.
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.
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.
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