Adam, Eve, & the Serpent - Hardcover

Pagels, Elaine

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297793268 ISBN 13: 9780297793267

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988

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How is it that the early Church, advocate of free will, came to preach the doctrine of original sin and to regard sexual desire as the inherent and shameful enslavement of humanity?. with dustjacket, light tanning to pages

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Review:

"A stunning book...[that] refreshes our view of early Christianity." --Christian Science Monitor

" A stunning book...[that] refreshes our view of early Christianity." --Christian Science Monitor

"A stunning book . . . [that] refreshes our view of early Christianity." --Christian Science Monitor
"[Adam, Eve, and the Serpent] confirms her reputation as both a scholar and a popular interpreter. . . . Her book is continuously rewarding and illuminating." --The New York Times
"This virtuoso study may disquiet some readers and refresh other; the debate it opens is not likely to leave any reader unmoved." --The New Yorker
"Ms. Pagels has taken a complex and seemingly arcane subject and made it fascinating and accessible. . . . Any scholarly author who has ever tried to do that will recognize the brilliance of her achievement." --Wall Street Journal

About the Author:

Elaine Pagels is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University and the author of Reading Judas, The Gnostic Gospels-winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award- and the New York Times bestseller Beyond Belief. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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