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... garden in Eden — in Western thought , and to contribute to the understanding of some of the literary works which ... Edenic paradise through the centuries . It attempts to consider the relation of Milton's Paradise to this paradise ...
... garden in Eden — in Western thought , and to contribute to the understanding of some of the literary works which ... Edenic paradise through the centuries . It attempts to consider the relation of Milton's Paradise to this paradise ...
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... garden of Alcinous , the Elysian Fields , and of the sorrows brought by Pandora and Proserpina . Scandinavian legend ... Edenic garden in order to demonstrate the accuracy of the opening chapters of Genesis . They also sought in paradise ...
... garden of Alcinous , the Elysian Fields , and of the sorrows brought by Pandora and Proserpina . Scandinavian legend ... Edenic garden in order to demonstrate the accuracy of the opening chapters of Genesis . They also sought in paradise ...
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... garden was different from Milton's in ways he could not have realized . Instead of the magnificently ordered ... Edenic garden as atop a high mountain , as it appears in Paradise Lost . Here , though not in the Genesis account , it is ...
... garden was different from Milton's in ways he could not have realized . Instead of the magnificently ordered ... Edenic garden as atop a high mountain , as it appears in Paradise Lost . Here , though not in the Genesis account , it is ...
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... garden resembles the high , heavily jeweled garden of Siduri , the shrine of Humbaba which , with its sacred cedars ... Edenic garden in Enoch , Baruch , and Esdras , sugges- tive of that in Ezekiel , forms a transition from the idea of ...
... garden resembles the high , heavily jeweled garden of Siduri , the shrine of Humbaba which , with its sacred cedars ... Edenic garden in Enoch , Baruch , and Esdras , sugges- tive of that in Ezekiel , forms a transition from the idea of ...
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... Edenic paradise , told of so briefly in Genesis , repeatedly turned to the ... Garden of Alcinous , and other classical con- cepts were often regarded as ... Edenic paradise was true . Classical ideals of a happy , blessed life and of a ...
... Edenic paradise , told of so briefly in Genesis , repeatedly turned to the ... Garden of Alcinous , and other classical con- cepts were often regarded as ... Edenic paradise was true . Classical ideals of a happy , blessed life and of a ...
Contents
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3 THE EARLY CHRISTIAN ERA | 38 |
4 THE MIDDLE AGES | 67 |
5 THE HISTORICAL PARADISE OF THE RENAISSANCE | 89 |
6 THE LEGACY OF EDEN | 125 |
7 THE SEARCH FOR PARADISE | 188 |
8 THE NATURAL PARADISE THE CELESTIAL PARADISE AND THE INNER PARADISE | 234 |
9 THE FADING OF PARADISE | 269 |
NOTES | 291 |
INDEX | 319 |
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