INTRODUCTION Our Common Ancestor
CHAPTER 1 First Man or First Jew? The Mysterious Patriarch of the Tribe of Israel
CHAPTER 2 The Two Essential Adams of the Apostle Paul
CHAPTER 3 The Devil Made Them Do It: Adam’s Free Choice, and Ours
CHAPTER 4 The Original Sinner: Augustine’s Attack on Adam as Everyman
CHAPTER 5 The Late Middle Ages: Adam Everywhere
CHAPTER 6 The Origin of Mrs. Cain (and the Posse That Chased Her Husband)
CHAPTER 7 The First Man and the First Minute: Adam and the Age of the Earth
CHAPTER 8 Too Many Adams? Or None at All?
CHAPTER 9 Mark of Cain, Curse of Ham: Is God a Racist?
CHAPTER 10 The Creationist Über-Adam: Why the First Son Could Marry His Sister
CHAPTER 11 Science, Antiscience, and the Extinction of Adam
CONCLUSION Wishful Thinking? We Are All Original Sinners