It may be the world's oldest love story — a naked Adam and Eve in a garden, surrounded by forbidden fruit and a seductive snake — but it still carries a remarkably modern message. That's because the ...

Hopper is a former Ideas Editor for TIME. The best-selling author who walked the Holy Land talks about The First Love Story, married priests and the Bible’s ringing endorsement of sex You write that ...

In a new book on Genesis, Gary A. Anderson focuses not on the textual origin of the story—the customary focus of historical-critical study—but on how the story has been received and retold, ...

Adam and Eve could be called the most famous couple in history. In "The First Love Story: Adam, Eve and Us," author Bruce Feiler examines the Bible and archaeology, but also love, relationships, ...

Busily engaged in apologetics, BioLogos, an organization dedicated to getting evangelical Christians to accept evolution, has a new post on the never-ending kerfuffle about the meaning of Adam and Eve ...

What Bruce Feiler’s reading of ‘the first love story’ leaves out. I’ve often wished for a book to hand to wives and husbands preparing to walk out on their families. I could have used half a dozen ...

In the biblical book of Genesis, God expels the first two human beings from the Garden of Eden after Eve entices Adam to eat the forbidden fruit. God “curses” Eve for her misdeed, using ominous words ...

Many Christians have rejected the scientific theory of evolution in part because they think it rules out the existence of a historical Adam and Eve. Yet some scientists and theologians argue that ...

Scientists believe they may finally have an answer to the age-old question - did Adam and Eve truly exist? According to the Bible, Adam and Eve were the first humans, created by God. The Old Testament ...

(RNS) The 'first couple' are much more than an origins story, author Bruce Feiler writes. They are a tale about overcoming fear and loneliness, of making sacrifices for one's beloved, of dealing with ...

In The First Love Story: Adam, Eve, and Us (Penguin Press, 320 pp., ***½ out of four stars), best-selling author Bruce Feiler makes a convincing case that mankind still has much to learn from the ...