The Earthly paradise : the Garden of Eden from antiquity to modernity

Introduction / Pier Cesare Bori

The anxiety of Eden / Stefano Levi Della Torre

The mystical architecture of Eden in the Jewish tradition / Giulio Busi Eden

The ambiguity of Eden and the enigma of Adam / Gaetano Lettieri

Adam in Eden : the difficult discernment of the perfect life / Paolo Bettiolo

Adam's paradise in the Koran and in the Muslim exegetical tradition / Ida Zilio Grandi

Paradise and nature in Johannes Scotus Erigena / Marta Cristiani

The sexual body in Dante and the medieval context / F. Regina Psaki

Therapy in the garden : the purgatorial Eden of Boccaccio's Decameron / Massimo Riva

State of innocence and private property in the polemic on evangelical poverty at the beginning of the fourteenth century / Gian Luca Potestà

The three gardens in the paradisal scene of Pico della Mirandola's De hominis dignitate / Pier Cesare Bori

Studium simplicitatis : the letter of grace in Luther's commentary on Genesis 1-3 / Stefano Leoni

A portrait of the exegete as a geographer, the map of paradise as a hermeneutic instrument in Calvin and his contemporaries / Max Engammare

The vision of paradise in the Journal of George Fox / Pier Cesare Bori

Love in paradise : Milton's pattern / Daniela Bianchi

Adamites old and new in seventeenth-century French morality / Lisa Ginzburg

'Geographia sacra' : the placing of paradise in late seventeenth-century French theology / Franco Motta

Paradise in the final scene of Faust II / Alberto Destro

The paradise of names : Benjamin's interpretation of Genesis 1-3 (1916) / Gianfranco Bonola

Paradise and the dialogical relation : Genesis 1-2 in the commentary of Karl Barth and of some of his interlocutors / Alberto Gallas