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The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne His Excellency by Joseph J. Ellis The Empty Space by Peter Brook The Oresteia by Aeschylus God in Search of Man by Abraham Joshua Heschel Four Plays by Aristophanes City of God by Augustine of Hippo On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Herman Melville by Herman Melville Plato by Plato Novels 1956–1964 by Saul Bellow
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story That Created Us by Stephen Greenblatt
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The Hebrew Bible that was stitched together so brilliantly after the return from exile could therefore not begin with Abraham and the origins of the Hebrews. It had to begin with Adam and Eve.
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