This month marks 350 years since John Milton sold his publisher the copyright of Paradise Lost for the sum of five pounds. His great work dramatizes the oldest story in the Bible, whose principal ...

The Bible describes a river flowing from Eden ... proposing a connection between the pyramid and the biblical paradise. His approach contradicts the previously accepted Mesopotamian theory.

According to the Bible, the Garden of Eden was a paradise where God placed Adam and Eve and featured a flowing river that split into four branches: Gihon, Euphrates, Tigris and Pishon. Many ...

Milton didn’t even begin his epic poem with the intention of writing Bible fan fiction — which is what Paradise Lost turned into. He wanted to write about the rise and fall of a Saxon King ...

The other main metaphor for God’s dwelling place in the Bible is paradise. According to Luke’s version of the crucifixion, Jesus converses with the men on either side of him while waiting to ...

Fantagraphics recently released “Songy of Paradise,” a large hardcover with gold embossing on soft lavender cloth, which focusses on another classic: the Bible, or, more specifically, ...

John Preston gives his verdict of Bible’s Buried Secrets (BBC Two), BBC Four's Twenty Twelve and Leaving Amish Paradise (BBC Two). Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou goes on the trail of King David and ...