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Article: Gary A. Anderson. The Genesis of Perfection: Adam and Eve in Jewish and Christian Imagination.(Book Review)
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001.257 pp. $24.95.
GARY A. ANDERSON is Professor of Old Testament and Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of numerous studies on Adam and Eve and Genesis 1-3, and has recently co-edited A Synopsis of the Books of Adam and Eve and Literature on Adam and Eve: Collected Essays. The present work is a synthesis of several of these studies, with 21 illustrations, some in color. The book contains a glossary of terms and names, four appendices (Biblical Origins and the Fall, Genesis 1-3 annotated text, Armenian Life of Adam and Eve, the Gospel of ...