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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story That Created Us
Stephen Greenblatt
Paperback
“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.
Poets of the Bible: From Solomon's Song of Songs to John's Revelation
Willis Barnstone
Hardback
“The vividness and beauty of the language emerge in a fresh way... with evocative simplicity.”—Robert Alter
Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory
Aldo Schiavone, Jeremy Carden
Hardback
A world-renowned classicist presents a thrilling revisionist biography of the Bible’s most controversial figure.
The Tongue of Adam
Abdelfattah Kilito, Robyn Creswell, Marina Warner
Paperback
A playful and erudite look at the origins of language
The Shia Revival
Vali Nasr
Updated Edition
Paperback
“Historically incisive, geographically broad-reaching, and brimming with illuminating anecdotes.” —Max Rodenbeck, New York Review of Books