| 词条 | Genesis A |
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Genesis A (or Elder Genesis) is an Old English poetic adaptation of the first half or so of the biblical book of Genesis. The poem is fused with a passage known today as Genesis B, translated and interpolated from the Old Saxon Genesis. Genesis A (and B) survive in the Junius Manuscript, which has been held in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford since 1677. SummaryGenesis A begins before Biblical Genesis—not with the creation of the world but with the creation of Heaven and the angels and with Satan's war on Heaven.[1] Then the poet describes the days of creation, culminating with the creation of Adam and a description of the Garden of Eden.[2] After this, the poem scholars call Genesis B resumes the story of Adam in the Garden,[3] while also going back to the war on Heaven Genesis A already discussed.[4]Textual BackgroundScholars consider the poem in the Junius manuscript of separate authorship than Genesis B, though both are presented concurrently in the Junius Manuscript.[5] C.L. Wrenn even considers Genesis A to be a composite work.[6] Scholars such as Wrenn once considered the work to be partially written by Cædmon,[6] though as far back as Laurence Michel in 1947 there were critics: he calls the attribution based on "circumstantial evidence" and that any connection "may be laid to the prevalence of well-known pious introductory formulas".[7] Editions and translationsThe editions and translations of Genesis A include:
See also{{Commons category|Caedmon manuscript}}
References1. ^lines 1-102 {{Old English poetry}}{{Adam and Eve}}{{Authority control}}2. ^lines 103-234 3. ^Genesis B, lines 235-245 4. ^Genesis B, lines 246 ff 5. ^{{cite web|last1=Killings|first1=Douglas B.|title=Codex Junius 11|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/618|website=Project Gutenberg|accessdate=17 March 2015|date=1 August 1996|quote=This work is generally believed to be a composite of two separate poems . . . The reason for this interpolation is not known. Perhaps the original compiler preferred the version of the story presented in "Genesis B", or perhaps the text of "Genesis A" from which he was working with was missing this section.}} 6. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Wrenn|first1=C.L.|title=A Study of Old English Literature|date=1967|publisher=Norton|location=New York|isbn=978-0393097689|page=99}} 7. ^{{cite journal|last1=Michel|first1=Laurence|title=Genesis A and the Praefatio|journal=Modern Language Notes|date=1947|volume=62|issue=8|page=545|JSTOR=2908618}} 5 : Book of Genesis|Cultural depictions of Adam and Eve|The Devil in fiction|Apocrypha|Old English poetry |
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