Milton's Earthly Paradise: A Historical Study of Eden

Adam and Eve Alcinous allegorical angels Augustine Avitus beauty belief Bible biblical bliss Celestial Cycle celestial paradise Christ Church classical Commentary on Genesis commentators conceptions covenant of grace created creation Dante developed dise divine early Christian earth earthly paradise Edenic garden Edenic paradise Elysium epic eternal Euphrates faith Fall four rivers fruit Genesis Giamatti God's golden age Haran heaven heavenly Hebrew historical paradise Holy human idea immortality inner paradise innocence interpretation Inveges John literal London man's marriage Mesopotamia Milton Milton's Adam Milton's Paradise Moses Moses Bar Cephas Mount Amara mountain myth natural law Old Testament original righteousness original sin Paradise Lost paradise story Pererius perfect Philo poets prelapsarian Prester John promise Protestant Raphael rational reason references rejected religion Renaissance Sacra Satan Scripture seventeenth century soul spiritual terrestrial paradise Thomas thought Tigris tion tradition trans tree of knowledge truth vols writers wrote Yahwist