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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: From Fiction to Faith

The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: From Fiction to Faith

FromALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library


The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: From Fiction to Faith

FromALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library

ratings:
Length:
69 minutes
Released:
Oct 5, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Stephen Greenblatt—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World—investigates the life of one of humankind’s greatest stories. His newest book, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, explores the enduring narrative 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 also so very “real” to millions of people even in the present. In a conversation with Jack Miles, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography, Greenblatt will demystify how—for better or worse—the biblical origin story permeates our lives today.
Released:
Oct 5, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

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ALOUD is the Library Foundation of Los Angeles' award-winning literary series of live conversations, readings and performances at the historic Central Library and locations throughout Los Angeles.