Description:
"Endlessly illuminating and a sheer pleasure to read." --Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography
Daring to take the great biblical account of human origins seriously, but without credulity.
Brief description: Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. A leading scholar of English Renaissance literature, he serves as general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and The Norton Shakespeare. He is the author of fourteen books, including Dark Renaissance and the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning The Swerve.
Review Quotes: A rare combination of wide-ranging erudition with verve of exposition. Even the most familiar materials are seen in a fresh, and humane, light. This is a book that makes one understand why old myths matter, even when they are perceived unblinkingly as myths.--Robert Alter, author of Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible and translator of The Hebrew Bible