Milton's Earthly Paradise: A Historical Study of Eden |
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... Genesis . They also sought in paradise the origins of knowledge , law , the family , religion , and society . It was in this intellectual climate that Milton matured ; this was the moment of Paradise Lost . In the hundred years after 6 ...
... Genesis . They also sought in paradise the origins of knowledge , law , the family , religion , and society . It was in this intellectual climate that Milton matured ; this was the moment of Paradise Lost . In the hundred years after 6 ...
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... Genesis , unaware of the earlier mythic tradi- tions and unsympathetic to the radical reinterpretation of Genesis by Christian commentators through the centuries . Yet , by the end of the seventeenth century , there were numerous ...
... Genesis , unaware of the earlier mythic tradi- tions and unsympathetic to the radical reinterpretation of Genesis by Christian commentators through the centuries . Yet , by the end of the seventeenth century , there were numerous ...
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... Genesis , many of its elements seem related to Sumerian , Babylonian , and Assyrian mythical material , much of which could have been trans- mitted from Mesopotamia to Palestine by the middle of the sec- ond millennium . Probably the ...
... Genesis , many of its elements seem related to Sumerian , Babylonian , and Assyrian mythical material , much of which could have been trans- mitted from Mesopotamia to Palestine by the middle of the sec- ond millennium . Probably the ...
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... Genesis provides the indispensable account of the garden that would come to be known as paradise ; however , some other Jewish writings also describe the garden and associate it with heaven or an abode of the blest . Most modern ...
... Genesis provides the indispensable account of the garden that would come to be known as paradise ; however , some other Jewish writings also describe the garden and associate it with heaven or an abode of the blest . Most modern ...
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... Genesis . The story in Genesis 2-3 is made as credible as possible and is filled with spiritual truth . Man is to work , even in the garden , and the serpent remains a mortal crea- ture of God . The central experience is not the eating ...
... Genesis . The story in Genesis 2-3 is made as credible as possible and is filled with spiritual truth . Man is to work , even in the garden , and the serpent remains a mortal crea- ture of God . The central experience is not the eating ...
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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