Paradise Lost and the Genesis TraditionRevised version of author's thesis, University of Oxford, 1963. |
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Contents
The Exegetical Tradition | 25 |
THE CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATIONS | 59 |
THE NEOCLASSICAL TREATMENTS 107 | 107 |
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