01994cam a2200361 i 4500 1164624972 TxAuBib 20171031120000.0 170612s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017014743 9780393240801 hardcover 0393240800 hardcover (OCoLC)971354359 DLC eng rda DLC YDX BTCTA BDX AZZPT OCLCO OCLCF FM0 JNE CZA BUR YDX TxAuBib rda Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-, author. The rise and fall of Adam and Eve / Stephen Greenblatt. First edition. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017] 419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 20171031. Eve Biblical figure. Adam Biblical figure. Eden. Fall of man. Anthropology. TXKIP