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Uriel
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Uriel . 1, 2 Two descendants of Kohath. 3 Man whose daughter became mother of King Abijah of Judah. The name appears in the pseudepigrapha for an archangel. He is introduced in Milton's Paradise Lost as the angel of the sun.
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Paradise lost; a poem written in ten books; 2v.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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milton in yosemite: PARADISE LOST AND THE NATIONAL PARKS IDEA
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'Paradise' found by Legendary.(Legendary Pictures to make a movie 'Paradise Lost')(Brief article)
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