Paradise Lost and the Genesis TraditionRevised version of author's thesis, University of Oxford, 1963. |
Contents
THE TEXT | 9 |
THE JEWISH INTERPRETATIONS | 26 |
THE CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATIONS | 59 |
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