The rise and fall of Adam and Eve / Stephen Greenblatt.
TITLE:
The rise and fall of Adam and Eve / Stephen Greenblatt.
Alternate Title:
Adam and Eve
Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company,
Edition:
First Edition.
Physical Description:
419 p, [16] p. of plates : ill.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-391) and index.
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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780393240801
