A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible

Naaman's song
Name us a King
Naming the animals
Nativity, The
Near Damascus
Nebuchadnezzar
Nebuchadnezzar's dream
Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom-come
Needle's Eye, The
New heaven and earth
New Magdalene, The
New Sinai, The
Night, The
Noah and the waters
Noah's raven
O taste and see
O thou of little faith
Oh! weep for these
On a feast
On another's sorrow
On Jordan's banks
On Lazarus raised from death
On St. John the Baptist
On the morning of Christ's nativity
On the two great floods
On Zacchaeus
One crucixion is recorded-only
One flesh
One Foot in Eden
Outside Eden
Oxen, The
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained
Patience, hard thing
Patriarch, The
Pearl, The
Pearl, The
Pearl, The
Pentecost
Pharaoh's daughter
Pilate remembers
Pilate's wife's dream
Pilgrim's Progress
Pillar of the cloud, The
Power and the Glory, The
Praise for the fountain opened
Prisoner of grace
Prodigal Son, The
Prodigal, The
Psalm 23

A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible: Paradise Lost

Genre

Poem

Definition

Milton's epic deals with the Fall of Satan from heaven, as well as the expulsion from Eden (known as Paradise of Adam and Eve)

Cultural References

Big ideas: Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve, 'Second Adam'

The disobedience of Adam and Eve in the Bible is known as the Fall of Humankind. Christians believe that humans from then on have had a a predispostion to disobey God.

The devil; the term 'Satan' actually means 'Enemy' and is often used to refer to the force of evil in the world.

In many religions, the place where God dwells, and to which believers aspire after their death. Sometimes known as Paradise.

The place described in the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament, in which God placed his first human creatures, Adam and Eve. It is depicted as a beautiful garden, often also called Paradise.

A place of beauty and perfection, associated in the Bible and literature with both the Garden of Eden before the Fall, and heaven. Often used as a synonym for heaven.

According to Genesis (the first book of the Old Testament), Adam is the first human being, made in the image / likeness of God, placed in the Garden of Eden and given dominion over the earth.

According to the book of Genesis in the Bible the first woman, said to have been created by God out of Adam's rib, to be his companion.

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