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Excavates the many layers of meaning hidden beneath the simple sounding biblical myth of Adam and Eve. This work scrutinizes the myth from the points of view of academic disciplines like history, literature, cognitive psychology, and sociology, religion and spirituality.
The book ventures into a rather uncharted terrain identifying and unveiling, as it does, the ideological underpinnings operative in the construction and deconstruction of the Adamic myth in the Judeo-Christian scenario (10th century BCE – 1st century ACE). The author delves deep into intricacies of the literary forms of myths, metaphors and Midrash involved in interpreting, legitimatizing, or reinforcing the later-day ethno-historical claims of a particular ...