Milton's Earthly Paradise: A Historical Study of Eden

Adam and Eve Adam’s Alcinous allegorical angels Augustine Avitus beauty Bible biblical Celestial Cycle celestial paradise Christ Church classical Commentary on Genesis commentators conceptions covenant of grace creation Dante developed dise divine early Christian earth earthly paradise Edenic garden Edenic paradise eternal Euphrates Eve’s faith Fall field figure final find first first parents flowing four rivers fruit Genesis God’s golden age Haran Heav’n heaven heavenly Hebrew historical paradise Holy human idea influence 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 Protestant Raphael reason references reflected rejected Renaissance Sacra Satan Scripture seventeenth century significance soul spiritual terrestrial paradise Thomas Tigris tion tradition trans tree of knowledge vols writers wrote Yahwist