What are some biblical allusions and their connections in James Joyce's "Araby"?

To add to
the previous post, Joyce describes a garden with an apple tree at its center.  This is where the
children--including the narrator--play.  This reference ties in nicely to the Garden of Eden
idea and the loss of paradise.  The narrator in "" loses his innocence through his
knowledge that there is no true escape from Dublin--not through a crush, not through a bazaar.
 He is doomed to the morbid mortality of those that live in those "imperturbable"
houses.  The narrator begins the story a child oblivious to the drabness of his environment, but
he ends fully aware of his vanity in thinking he can escape it.

Another
religious image used in the story is the chalice, or grail.  The narrator's image of Mangan's
sister is held like a chalice as he moves through the market place. His obsession with her is
described as a religious experience.In fact, he even presses his palms together in semblance of
 prayer when he thinks of her, crying "O love." In this way, the narrator becomes a
knight searching for a mystical object (the gift for Mangan's sister) that will transport him to
heaven(her becoming enamored with him).   Of course, he does not find that grail.  When he goes
to Araby, he realizes that the bazaar is just more of the same--the same darkness that shrouds
Dublin.  He cannot find the perfect gift for Mangan's sister, and he knows that his hopes of
attaining her are vain.

It might also be noted that Mangan's sister cannot go
to Araby because she has a retreat at the convent.  It seems that Mangan's sister is in training
to be a nun, making the narrator's infatuation with her truly a dead end.