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
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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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