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Photo by Giraudon/Art Resource, New York, NY, courtesy Musée Condé

ON THE COVER: Four stages in the “fall” of Eve and Adam appear in this miniature painted for a Book of Hours—a richly illustrated medieval prayer book. “The Book of Hours—The Medieval Best Seller,” explains the popularity of these prayer books. In “Eve and Adam—Is a feminist reading possible?” a leading Bible scholar sheds new light on the Eve and Adam story. For a detailed description of the decidedly unfeminist artistic interpretation of Genesis 3 on our cover, see the sidebar to “Eve and Adam—Is a feminist reading possible?”