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"""""Batto offers a luscious, patient, thick read of the Adam and Eve story. . . . This is an ambitious read, every bit a match for the Bible's most iconic narrative. Tracing the story as it travels through time . . . furnishes Batto with a kaleidoscope of angles from which to appreciate afresh aspects of the old, primordial story. . . . Batto's finest accomplishment is the ever-richer reading of the original Genesis story that emerges in the process."""" --F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, Princeton Theological Seminary """"Mesmerizing! With lucid, entertaining prose, Batto navigates three millennia of sources to delineate the shifting contours of interpretation of the two most influential biblical characters in Western history. Clearly, he demonstrates, we never cease to recreate Adam and Eve in our own image. This is an erudite and exhilarating read, engaging to scholars and general readers alike."""" --Valarie H. Ziegler, coauthor of Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender"

Batto offers a luscious, patient, thick read of the Adam and Eve story. . . . This is an ambitious read, every bit a match for the Bible's most iconic narrative. Tracing the story as it travels through time . . . furnishes Batto with a kaleidoscope of angles from which to appreciate afresh aspects of the old, primordial story. . . . Batto's finest accomplishment is the ever-richer reading of the original Genesis story that emerges in the process. --F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, Princeton Theological Seminary Mesmerizing! With lucid, entertaining prose, Batto navigates three millennia of sources to delineate the shifting contours of interpretation of the two most influential biblical characters in Western history. Clearly, he demonstrates, we never cease to recreate Adam and Eve in our own image. This is an erudite and exhilarating read, engaging to scholars and general readers alike. --Valarie H. Ziegler, coauthor of Eve and Adam: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender

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Bernard F. Batto is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at DePauw University. Previous publications include Slaying the Dragon (1992) and In the Beginning (2013).

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