Throughout his career as a researcher in Phoenician Mythology, Dr. Karam has never ceased to give all his work a genuine universality. In this thorough analysis of the Adonis myth and its cultural repercussions in the East and West, the author has demonstrated a true mastery of both high-level academic research and the technique of decoding Phoenician mythology. In this very learned work devoted to the myth of Adonai through the centuries, our author has demonstrated an unequalled erudition, and has been able to open a founding page for a new exegesis and biblical hermeneutics for the deciphering of the creative forces of the Semitic genius.