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... Mesopotamia to Palestine by the middle of the sec- ond millennium . Probably the eariest account of a paradise and a fall is the epic of Gilgamesh , which evidently existed in some form two or three thousand years before the compo ...
... Mesopotamia to Palestine by the middle of the sec- ond millennium . Probably the eariest account of a paradise and a fall is the epic of Gilgamesh , which evidently existed in some form two or three thousand years before the compo ...
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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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