The Apocryphal Adam and Eve in Medieval Europe

Murdoch, Brian

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“…More to the point, as Brian Murdoch has shown in a brilliant study, 39 the Latin Life of Adam and Eve also circulated widely in medieval Europe, and was repeatedly translated into many European vernaculars. Just to skim the surface of Murdoch's rich survey: the Life (including the envy account) had been rendered into Irish in the tenth century, in the Saltair na Rann [Psalter of Quatrains] 40 ; it appears in a Middle German poem, four manuscripts of which survive from the fourteenth century 41 ; and, most importantly for our purposes, it appears in the Middle English "Auchinleck" manuscript, dated to the early fourteenth century. 42 The Auchinleck Life of Adam and Eve develops the Latin Vita in a number of interesting ways, most importantly in its explicit inclusion of Jesus himself in its plotline: in this text, as in the Latin Vita, Satan objects to honoring © 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Adam on the grounds of his priority ('I was before the world began/Ere ever God did make man .…”

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The Devil's Envy: On Christ as Angelic Justifier and Demonic Stumbling Block

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2022

Int J Systematic Theology

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At least since Augustine, Christian theology, especially but not only in the Latin West, has been dominated by an account of angelic origins in which the Incarnation was a response to humanity’s fall, itself occasioned by the prior angelic fall, whose cause in turn was the proud desire to be like God. (We’ll call this the ‘pride‐account’). Nonetheless, that Augustinian view has been balanced from the beginning by an ‘envy‐account’, which stresses instead Wisdom’s claim, ‘Through the Devil’s envy, death entered the world’ (Wisd. 2:24). The earliest extra‐biblical versions of the envy‐account – developed in the Latin, Syriac, and Arabic ‘Life of Adam and Eve’ traditions – take the object of Satan’s envy to have been Adam in particular. In the thirteenth century, however, Robert Grosseteste, as part of his extended defense of the idea that the Son would have been incarnate even without sin, argued instead that the Devil and his angels fell in rejecting the to‐be‐incarnate Christ, whose merits serve to ‘justify’ not only unfallen humanity, but even the holy angels. On this view, which arguably has biblical roots in Hebrews 1 and Revelation 12, and which reached its apogee in Milton’s Paradise Lost, ‘the Devil’s envy’ was directed at the God‐man in particular.

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The Devil's Envy: On Christ as Angelic Justifier and Demonic Stumbling Block

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“…(Stokes, 1862: xl-xli) Nuevos testimonios dejan abierta la cuestión de la antigüedad y del carácter indo-europeo de la idea (Murdoch 2009;Lajoye 2013). Pero en el Libro de las Conquistas de Irlanda aparece Adán formado a partir de tres elementos:…”

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Stoic and Posidonian Thought on the Immortality of Soul

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Life of Adam and Eve

Magliano-Tromp

2012

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History

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The Life of Adam and Eve is an early Jewish or Christian writing about the expulsion of Adam and Eve from paradise. It is also known under the title Apocalypse of Moses . Taking its lead from the story in Genesis 3, it recounts the well‐known events, enriched abundantly with apocryphal details. The writings is extant in numerous versions and manuscripts, showing that it has been one of the most widespread writings in the Christian world. Almost all of these offer a different form of the story, showing in addition that the transmitters' interest in it was not antiquarian, but lively, and continually nurtured by oral tradition.

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The Apocryphal Adam and Eve in Medieval Europe

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The Devil's Envy: On Christ as Angelic Justifier and Demonic Stumbling Block

The Devil's Envy: On Christ as Angelic Justifier and Demonic Stumbling Block

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Life of Adam and Eve

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