Title: Maps of paradise /
Authors: Scafi, Alessandro,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Paradise Maps.; Geographical myths; Paradise Comparative studies.
Abstract: "For two millennia, learned Christians have wondered where on earth the primal paradise could have been located. Where was the idyllic Garden of Eden that is described in the Bible? ... Maps of Paradise charts the diverse ways in which scholars and mapmakers from the eighth to the twenty-first century rose to the challenge of identifying the location of paradise on a map"--Jacket flap.
Contents: Paradise nowhere and elsewhere -- Mapping the territory -- Mapping the Bible -- Mapping time -- Where is nowhere? -- Pinning down paradise -- Everything changes, nothing changes -- New life into an old debate -- Paradise and utopia.