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Scafi, Alessandro
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Title Mapping paradise : a history of heaven on earth / Alessandro Scafi.
Publisher Chicago : University of Chicago
Creation Date 2006
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-364) and index.
Content Changing views on paradise on maps -- Paradise in the Bible -- Locating paradise in space -- Locating paradise in time -- Mapping paradise in space and time -- The heyday of paradise on maps -- Where is nowhere? -- The twilight of paradise on maps -- Paradise lost and found -- The afterlife of paradise on maps -- The eclipse of the theological Eden.
Extent 398 pages : ill. (some color), facsims., maps
29 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990025280280205171

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