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A Haven for Hebrew: Eber’s Journey from Eden to New England A Haven for Hebrew: Eber’s Journey from Eden to New England
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Navigating The Temple: Two Paths Back to Paradisiacal Purity Navigating The Temple: Two Paths Back to Paradisiacal Purity
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from dust to rest from dust to rest
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Paradisiacal Pruning Paradisiacal Pruning
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“In the Beginning Was the Word”: The Plain Language of the Bay Psalm Book “In the Beginning Was the Word”: The Plain Language of the Bay Psalm Book
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A Herbertian Heritage A Herbertian Heritage
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The Plain Style of Primers and Psalm Books The Plain Style of Primers and Psalm Books
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Describing the Puritan Plain Style Lexically Describing the Puritan Plain Style Lexically
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A Comparative Analysis of Three Psalters A Comparative Analysis of Three Psalters
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The Bay Psalm Book’s Hebraisms The Bay Psalm Book’s Hebraisms
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“Make my Leaden Whittle, Metall Good”: Edward Taylor and the Alchemy of Eden “Make my Leaden Whittle, Metall Good”: Edward Taylor and the Alchemy of Eden
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The Polished Stones of Taylor’s Temple The Polished Stones of Taylor’s Temple
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“This Sacred Adamick Stone” “This Sacred Adamick Stone”
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Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain’d: The Eighteenth-Century Move to Milton Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain’d: The Eighteenth-Century Move to Milton
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A Quaker Coda: Singular and Plural Language in New England A Quaker Coda: Singular and Plural Language in New England
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The Entrance into Learning The Entrance into Learning
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Thee and Thou in New England Thee and Thou in New England
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{ 5 } Translating Paradise: Hebrew, Herbert, Milton, Fox, And The Pursuit Of Linguistic Purity
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Published:June 2014
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Abstract
Because Francis Bacon and other Renaissance thinkers theorized that the encyclopedic knowledge and divinely denotative language of Adam were inseparably linked, the fifth chapter transitions from an interrogation of colonial hopes for edenic wisdom to an examination of language planning meant to remodel the English language after the lingua humana spoken by Adam and Eve in Eden. This transatlantic program of linguistic innovation inspired the singular Quaker grammar of thee and thou instituted by George Fox and employed by missionaries in New England as well as experiments in the Puritan plain style. The poetry of George Herbert—a translator of Bacon’s most influential treatise—was a model for and influence on the paradisiacal poetry produced by Edward Taylor and contributors to The Bay Psalm Book. John Eliot looked to Hebrew as a model for edenic speech, and Cotton Mather found the rhythms of paradise in John Milton’s blank verse.
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