Mark D'Alessio

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picturing Adam in the garden, Moses was not asking his readers to conjure up the image of a naked peasant who has been set to work in some rural wilderness. The original ancestor, the cosmopolitan Philo wrote, was “the only real citizen of the cosmos,” and the actual garden in which he was meant to labor was his soul.
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story That Created Us
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