...This introductory chapter provides an overview of John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667). Paradise Lost tells the story of two falls. There is the unending fall of Satan and his followers, and there is the Fall—and spiritual regeneration—of Adam and Eve. Satan's story...

...), manuscript illuminations of the temptation scene, and thirteenth-century translations of the apocryphal Life of Adam and Eve. The chapter argues that medieval representations of Eve’s encounter with the serpent suggest that Eve is tempted not just by knowledge, but by a vision of self-sovereignty...

... and a benevolent God. His temptation of Adam and Eve leaves humankind open to demonic temptation in a broken world. Natural evils have been ascribed to the Devil. He has been identified as a cosmic tyrant, controlling creation, and an agent of providence, although his intentions are always wicked. He rules over...

... that God should determine the fate of every human being. ‘God and hell’ asks important questions: isn’t God love? Why doesn’t God save everyone? Why doesn’t he covenant with the entire human race, predestining everyone to eternal salvation? Why didn’t God stop the fall of Adam and Eve from occurring...

...Isotta Nogarola, an Italian-born French author and Ludovico Foscarini, a Venetian governor, debated the question in 1451 of whether Adam or Eve had committed the greater sin when they ate of the Tree of Knowledge and were expelled from Paradise. Quoting Aristotle, Foscarini argues first...

...-Roman thought with biblical teachings. And striding across the stage in public, she lectured the Veronese citizenry on everything from history and religion to politics and morality. But the most influential of Nogarola's works was a performance piece, Dialogue on Adam and Eve, in which...

...The conclusion takes up two small fragments not yet analyzed in the book: scenes of paradise and Adam and Eve. Focusing on how the primordial couple was understood in early Syrian Christianity enables a recapitulation of some of the themes of the book, while also showcasing the common initiatory...

... modernity. The two key mythical elements from Cienaños de soledad are the story of Adam and Eve, and ancient Sanskrit texts. Critics have frequently discussed these elements as a key component of the novel’s poetics. banana industry Colombia banana industry liberalism Panama isthmus...

.... In prose works such as Eikonoklastes, A Defense of the English People, and Brief Notes upon a Late Sermon, Milton champions an emerging idea of treason as an attack on the law rather than as an attack on the king. This definition of treason informs his treatment of both Adam and Eve's and Satan's rebellion...

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...This chapter investigates the seventeenth-century cultural and historical context of Milton's portrayal the relationship of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost. This approach aims to bring the intellectual, doctrinal, and political debates with which he engaged in his portrayal...

...This introductory chapter analyses the fourteenth book of The City of God against the Pagans (c. fifth century CE) by Augustine of Hippo. Book 14 contains the analysis of Adam and Eve's life in the Garden of Eden and their subsequent Fall. This is an episode central not only to his...

... Homilies Biblical commentary Liturgical pericopes Adam and Eve Mary Magdalen It is clear from the sophisticated work of the Kitzingen theologian-artist, whose full-page miniature functioned as a visual commentary on the Pauline epistles, that the women of the Anglo-Saxon cultural province in Francia...

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...This book examines the development in medieval European literature of the story of Adam and Eve after the expulsion from paradise. The gaps in what the Bible records of their lives were filled in early and medieval times to a great extent by apocrypha or pseudepigrapha such as the Latin...

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...This book investigates representations of the emblematic first woman by examining one of the earliest and most influential accounts of Adam and Eve subsequent to the Hebrew Bible, namely the apocryphal Greek Life of Adam and Eve (GLAE) from antiquity. It further...

...Inventing Eden builds on recent environmental criticism to chart the ways in which colonial New England writers replaced their initial topographical optimism with an interest in recovering the somatic, intellectual, spiritual, and social perfections that Adam and Eve enjoyed...