The Creation of Eve

The Creation of Eve
Author: Lynn Cullen
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2010-03-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101186089

"Enormously satisfying...I'm grateful to Cullen for the pleasures of such a splendid read." -Sara Gruen, New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants. In 1559, a young woman painter flees a scandal involving one of Michelangelo's students, and is taken to the Spanish court, where she becomes the young queen's confidante and lady-in-waiting. Through her keenly trained eye, readers watch a love triangle unfold involving the queen, the king, and his half brother-a dangerous gamble that risks the lives of the queen and all those who keep her secrets.

The Creation of Eve and Renaissance Naturalism

The Creation of Eve and Renaissance Naturalism
Author: Jack M. Greenstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016-08-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 110710324X

This book traces how four early Renaissance masters represented the Creation of Eve, which showed woman rising weightlessly from Adam's side at God's command.

The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story That Created Us

The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story That Created Us
Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393634582

“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. The most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, acclaimed scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores it with profound appreciation for its cultural and psychological power as literature. From the birth of the Hebrew Bible to the awe-inspiring contributions of Augustine, Dürer, and Milton in bringing Adam and Eve to vivid life, Greenblatt unpacks the story’s many interpretations and consequences over time. Rich allegory, vicious misogyny, deep moral insight, narrow literalism, and some of the greatest triumphs of art and literature: all can be counted as children of our “first” parents.

The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis

The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis
Author:
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 146
Release: 1999
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9780802136107

Hailed as "the most radical repackaging of the Bible since Gutenberg", these Pocket Canons give an up-close look at each book of the Bible.

The Genealogical Adam and Eve

The Genealogical Adam and Eve
Author: S. Joshua Swamidass
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830865055

What if the biblical creation account is true, with the origins of Adam and Eve taking place alongside evolution? Building on well-established but overlooked science, S. Joshua Swamidass explains how it's possible for Adam and Eve to be rightly identified as the ancestors of everyone, opening up new possibilities for understanding Adam and Eve consistent both with current scientific consensus and with traditional readings of Scripture.

The Creation of Eve and Renaissance Naturalism

The Creation of Eve and Renaissance Naturalism
Author: Jack M. Greenstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016-08-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316483320

Depicting the Creation of Woman presented a special problem for Renaissance artists. The medieval iconography of Eve rising half-formed from Adam's side was hardly compatible with their commitment to the naturalistic representation of the human figure. At the same time, the story of God constructing the first woman from a rib did not offer the kind of dignified, affective pictorial narrative that artists, patrons, and the public prized. Jack M. Greenstein takes this artistic problem as the point of departure for an iconographic study of this central theme of Christian culture. His book shows how the meaning changed along with the form when Lorenzo Ghiberti, Andrea Pisano, and other Italian sculptors of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries revised the traditional composition to accommodate a naturalistically depicted Eve. At stake, Greenstein argues, is the role of the artist and the power of image-making in reshaping Renaissance culture and religious thought.

The Sisters of Summit Avenue

The Sisters of Summit Avenue
Author: Lynn Cullen
Publisher: Gallery Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2020-04-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982129859

From the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe and Twain’s End comes a “poignant, beautifully rendered story of two sisters who find the courage to reclaim their bond after years of misunderstandings and heartbreak” (Melanie Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author) during the Great Depression. 1934. Ruth has been single-handedly raising four young daughters and running her family’s Indiana farm for eight long years, ever since her husband, John, was infected by the infamous “sleeping sickness” devastating families across the country. If only she could trade places with her older sister, June: blonde and beautiful, married to a wealthy doctor, living in a mansion in St. Paul. And June has a coveted job, too, as one of “the Bettys,” the perky recipe developers who populate the famous Betty Crocker test kitchen. But these gilded trappings hide sorrows: she has borne no children. And the man she loves more than anything belongs to Ruth. When the two sisters reluctantly reunite after a long estrangement, June’s bitterness about her sister’s betrayal sets into motion a confrontation that’s been years in the making. And their mother, Dorothy, who’s brought the two of them together, has her own dark secrets, which might blow up the fragile peace she hopes to restore between her daughters. An emotional journey of redemption, inner strength, and the ties that bind families together, for better or worse, The Sisters of Summit Avenue is a moving and heartfelt tribute to mothers, daughters, and sisters everywhere.

Biblical Tradition in Blake's Early Prophecies

Biblical Tradition in Blake's Early Prophecies
Author: Leslie Tannenbaum
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1400886597

In a detailed examination of the ways in which Blake's use of biblical tradition gives form and meaning to his early prophetic books, Leslie Tannenbaum shows what Blake meant when he called the Bible the Great Code of Art." Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Empires of Eve

Empires of Eve
Author: Andrew Groen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2015-09-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9780990972402

The Book of Adam and Eve, Also Called The Conflict of Adam and Eve With Satan, a Book of the Early Eastern Church

The Book of Adam and Eve, Also Called The Conflict of Adam and Eve With Satan, a Book of the Early Eastern Church
Author: Solomon Caesar Malan
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2018-11-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9780344732997

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