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ADAM, EVE, AND THE SERPENT
by Pagels, Elaine H
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0394521404
- ISBN 13
- 9780394521404
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Northwestern Univ Press, Evanston, 1987. Octavo, hardcover, fine in VG beige pictorial dj. Articles laid in "original sin revisited" and "apple and eve". First edition, 2nd printing. She discusses old controversies and make them of immediate interest. "How did it happen that Christian tradition came to find sexual desire sinful and to claim that infants, from the moment of conception, are infected with the disease oforiginal sin, that Adam's sin corrupted the whole of nature, which until that point had known neither death or labor nor suffering?" 189 pp with Notes & Index plus About the Author
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60974
- Title
- ADAM, EVE, AND THE SERPENT
- Author
- Pagels, Elaine H
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394521404
- ISBN 13
- 9780394521404
- Publisher
- Northwestern Univ Press, Evanston, 1987
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1988
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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