Edition |
First edition. |
Physical Description |
419 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (mostly color) ; 25 cm. |
Note |
Includes bibliographical refernces and index. |
Summary |
Greenblatt explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents, and through them, of Western civilization. Tracking the tale into the deep past, to the Hebrews' exile in Babylon, Greenblatt explores the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural creativity over the centuries that made Adam and Eve so profoundly resonant, and continues to make them, finally, so very "real" to millions of people even in the present. Both a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness, their story - told in only a few verses in an ancient book - has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of human fears and desires. |
Subject |
Eve (Biblical figure)
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Adam (Biblical figure)
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Eden.
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Fall of man.
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Anthropology.
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