ABSTRACT
Many injustices to Milton’s epics arise from applying interpretations of Genesis with which Milton did not concur. Biblical literature-the Hebrew and Greek testaments-leave space for interpretation; by learnedly liberating the literal texts from assumptions and allegories of intervening centuries and re-presenting them newly imagined, Milton sets perceptions of mother Earth, mother Nature, and mother Eve on new trajectories.1As a defender of the liberty of the educated conscience, he divorces monotheism from the authoritarianism that sometimes claims it.
