Introduction / Leland Ryken -- Scriptural formula and prophetic utterance in Lycidas / Michael Lieb -- Paradise lost and its Biblical epic models / Leland Ryken -- The council scenes in Paradise lost / Sister M. Christopher Pecheux -- Creation in reverse : the Book of Job and Paradise lost / Harold Fisch -- All-interpreting love : God's name in Scripture and in Paradise lost / Michael Fixler -- The Gospel of John and Paradise regained : Jesus as True Light / Stella Revard -- Milton and covenant : the Christian view of Old Testament theology / John T. Shawcross -- The Miltonic narrator and scriptural tradition : an afterword / James H. Sims.,edited by James H. Sims and Leland Ryken.,Includes bibliographical references and index.