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Adam, Eve, and the Serpent by Elaine Pagels

Adam, Eve, and the Serpent by Elaine Pagels

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Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity by Elaine Pagels

A National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author deepens and refreshes our view of early Christianity while casting a disturbing light on the evolution of the attitudes passed down to us.

How did the early Christians come to believe that sex was inherently sinful?

When did the Fall of Adam become synonymous with the fall of humanity?

"Confirms her reputation as both a scholar and a popular interpreter.... Continuously rewarding and illuminating."
- The New York Times

What turned Christianity from a dissident sect that championed the integrity of the individual and the idea of free will into the bulwark of a new imperial order—with the central belief that human beings cannot not choose to sin?

In this provocative masterpiece of historical scholarship Elaine Pagels re-creates the controversies that racked the early church as it confronted the riddles of sexuality, freedom, and sin as embodied in the story of Genesis.

And she shows how what was once heresy came to shape our own attitudes toward the body and the soul.

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Paul Kieniewicz
An Alternative Eden

What really happened in the Garden of Eden? Who was the serpent? Elaine Pagels gives us a new angle on familiar events. A must read.