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The rise and fall of Adam and Eve / Stephen Greenblatt.

By: Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943- [author.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]Description: 419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393240801; 0393240800Subject(s): Adam (Biblical figure) | Eve (Biblical figure) | Eden | Fall of man | AnthropologyLOC classification: BS1237 | .G74 2017Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-391) and index.
Contents:
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.

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.

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