Author : Brian Murdoch
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0199564140
The apocryphal Life of Adam and Eve explores what happened to Adam and Eve after their expulsion from Paradise. Professor Murdoch considers the varied development of the apocryphal material, and presents a fascinating analysis of the flourishing medieval tradition of Adam and Eve, celebrated in European prose, verse, and drama.
Author : Brian Murdoch
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
This edition, the first since 1878, offers Middle English texts accompanied by detailed notes contextualizing the poems within an apocryphal tradition and full glossary. The Introduction reviews the development of the Adam and Eve legend in medieval European vernacular. Last edited in 1878, the two poems edited in this volume are medieval English versions of the legendary lives of Adam and Eve, telling of their attempts to regain the Paradise they had just lost and their life after the Fall, and merging with the related legends of the history of the Cross before Christ. The poems are important as part of a very large European tradition of vernacular adaptations of the Adambook, known in its Latin form (the immediate source) as the Vita Adae et Evae, with analogues in many other languages. Once very well known, these stories largely disappeared after the Reformation. The works are of equal interest not only in the general area of medieval English literature, but also in the study of Old Testament apocrypha itself. This edition offers readable texts of the two poems, accompanied by a detailed set of notes which contextualise the poems within their apocryphal traditions; traditions which have echoes in a wide variety of other medieval works, ranging from continental world-chronicles to the Cornish Ordinalia and to the English mystery-cycles. The Introduction includes a substantial review of the development of the Adam and Eve legend in medieval European vernacular and is a contribution to scholarship in its own right.
Author : Michael E. Stone
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
"This work describes and analyzes the extensive research on the origin, date, transmission and textual histories, and interrelationships of the primary Adam and Eve books. The "primary" Adam and Eve literature includes the Greek Apocalypse of Moses, the Latin Vita Adam et Evae, the Slavonic Vita Adam et Evae, the Armenian Penitence of Adam, the Georgian Book of Adam, and a fragmentary Coptic version. Like most of the Jewish pseudepigrapha, the transmission of this literature occured primarily in Christian contexts. The question is : how did this literature function in these contexts and by what criteria are the Adam and Eve books to be identified as either Jewish or Christian? Because of the complexity of the transmission history of the Adam and Eve books, this study has far-reaching implications regarding the later use and reshaping of Jewish pseudepigrapha. Includes an extensive bibliography." -- Publisher's description.
Author : Michael E. Stone
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004106635
This volume is the first publication of 19 previously unpublished Armenian compositions about Adam and Eve. The Armenian texts are accompanied by translations, introductions and commentaries, in which their roots in more ancient Jewish and Christian literature are explored.
Author : Brian Murdoch
Publisher :
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Adam (Biblical figure)
ISBN : 9781800857247
Author : Marinus de Jonge
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 16,39 MB
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567341224
The Life of Adam and Eve once belonged to the most popular literature in the Christian world. Retelling the Genesis 3 story, it gives an elaborate description of Adam's death and his assumption to Paradise in the third heaven. His continued existence, as well as his future resurrection, are as much a paradigm for humanity as his transgression, condemnation and death. For a long time attention was focused on the Greek and Latin versions only. More recently, editions of Georgian and Armenian versions have become available, occupying a middle position between the Greek and the Latin. This new material now makes it necessary to sort out the relationships between no less than five clearly related but in many respects different documents. Taken together they present a complex but interesting mosaic of reflections on the human plight, inspired by the Genesis story.
Author : John Flood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1136837779
As the first woman, Eve was the pattern for all her daughters. The importance of readings of Eve for understanding how women were viewed at various times is a critical commonplace, but one which has been only narrowly investigated. This book systematically explores the different ways in which Eve was understood by Christians in antiquity and in the English Middle Ages, and it relates these understandings to female social roles. The result is an Eve more various than she is often depicted by scholars. Beginning with material from the bible, the Church Fathers and Jewish sources, the book goes on to look at a broad selection of medieval writing, including theological works and literary texts in Old and Middle English. In addition to dealing with famous authors such as Augustine, Aquinas, Dante and Chaucer, the writings of authors who are now less well-known, but who were influential in their time, are explored. The book allows readers to trace the continuities and discontinuities in the way Eve was portrayed over a millennium and a half, and as such it is of interest to those interested in women or the bible in the Middle Ages.
Author : REV Joseph Klaus
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2020-08-16
Category :
ISBN :
According to the apocryphal "The First Book of Adam and Eve," when they left the garden they were forced to live in a cave, which was called The Cave of Treasures. The book says that they went through a lot of suffering after leaving the garden, especially in the first year after their departure; they tried several times to kill themselves and return to paradise, until they had their first children (Cain, Abel and their sisters - not quoted in the Bible). According to the First Book of Adam and Eve, the couple would have repented and obtained forgiveness; and several other times they received from God the promise of a ransom, from a Savior who would be born in the human germ, to redeem their offspring, and these promises consoled them. They came upon the enmity of Satan, who sought to kill them and seduced them, becoming an angel of light, and telling them that they were a heavenly envoy, charged with carrying divine messages. Although they were outside the garden, Adam and Eve listened to the voice of God, who always sent them His word, clearing up their doubts.
Author : Brian Murdoch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191626694
The story of the apocryphal pope and saint Gregorius was extremely popular throughout the middle ages and later in Europe and beyond. In a memorable narrative Gregorius is born from an incestuous relationship between a noble brother and sister, and is set out to sea with (unspecific) details of his origin. He is found and brought up by an abbot, but when revealed as a foundling leaves as a knight to seek his origins; he rescues his mother's land from attack, and marries her. On discovering his sin he undertakes years of penance on a rocky islet, which he survives miraculously. An angel sends emissaries from Rome to find him after the death of the pope, the key to his shackles is equally miraculously discovered, and he becomes pope. This hagiographical romance is not a variation upon Oedipus; it uses the invisible sin of incest as a parallel both for original sin (the sin of Adam and Eve) and for actual sin. It combines the universal theme of the quest for identity with the problem not of guilt as such, which is inevitable, but of how sinful humanity can cope with it. Brian Murdoch traces the story's probable origins in medieval England or France, and its later appearance in versions from Iceland and Ireland to Iraq and Egypt, in verse and prose, in full-scale literary forms or in much-reduced folktales, in theological as well as secular contexts, down to Thomas Mann and beyond.
Author : Michael Bintley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1843846640
Forests, with their interlacing networks of trees and secret patterns of communication, are powerful entities for thinking-with. A majestic terrestrial community of arboreal others, their presence echoes, entangles, and resonates deeply with the human world. The essays collected here aim to highlight human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when, whether symbol and metaphor, or actual and real, their lofty boughs were weighted with meaning. The chapters interrogate the pre-Anthropocene environment, reflecting on trees as metaphors for kinship and knowledge as they appear in literary, historical, art-historical, and philosophical sources. They examine images of trees and trees in-themselves across a range of environmental, material, and intellectual contexts, and consider how humans used arboreal and rhizomatic forms to negotiate bodies of knowledge and processes of transition. Looking beyond medieval Europe, they include discussion of parallel developments in the Islamic world and that of the Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand.
