“I thought, ‘Wow,'” Feiler said of that moment four years ago. “Adam and Eve have been at the heart of every conversation about religion for 30 centuries. They have been the battleground for family and marriage and sexual identity for 3,000 years and, as absurd as it sounds, maybe they have something that we need now. Can Adam and Eve be role models for today?”
The answer, as unraveled in “The First Love Story: Adam, Eve, and Us,” is a definite yes. Adam and Eve, Feiler writes, are much more than an origins story — they are a tale about overcoming fear and loneliness, of making sacrifices for one's beloved, of dealing with enormous loss and, ultimately, of dying.
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