Tag: Adam and Eve

A. Regarding Its Potential At least three different interpretive issues need to be kept in mind when preparing an edition of this work: The relationship of the various manuscripts within a particular language family;The relationship of the various versions over against one another;The manner in whic...

Adler, W. 1989 Time Immemorial: Archaic History and Its Sources in Christian Chronography from Julius Africanus to George Syncellus. Dumbarton Oaks Studies, 26. Washington, Dumbarton Oaks.Alexandre, M. 1988 Le commencement du Livre Genèse I-V: La version grecque de la Septante et sa réception. Paris...

Identity of Adam Adam is from the Hebrew Adam. The word Adam has its Hebrew roots in adamah which means land or ground. The word refers to the rich reddish soil of the fertile crescent in contrast to the arid earth of the wilderness which cannot support life. Usually when it is used in the Old Testa...

Native Title: "Life of Adam and Eve"Original Publication: V. Jagic, "Slavische Beiträge zu den biblischen Apocryphen, I, Die altkirchenslavischen Texte des Adamsbuche." Denkschr. kaiserl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, philos.-hist. Klasse. Vienna, 42:1-104, 1893. Current Edition Used: V. Jagic.Transl...

Native Title: "Penitence of Adam"Original Publication: Michael E. Stone, The Penitence of Adam. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 429-30; Scriptores Armeniaci 13-14. ed. R. Draguet. Leuven, Peeters, 1981.Current Edition Used: sameTranslation: Michael E. Stone, Penitence of Adam, with some ...

Native Title: The Apocalypse of MosesOriginal Publication: C. von Tischendorf, Apocalypses Apocryphae Mosis, Esdrae, Pauli, Iohanni. . . Leipzig, Mendelssohn; reprinted, Hildersheim, Olms, 1966.Current Edition Used: The text prepared by Nagel used in A.-M. Denis, Concordance grecque des pseudépigrap...

Original Publication: W. E. Crum, Catalogue of Coptic Manuscripts in the Collection of the John Rylands Library. Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1909.Extended Discussion in Stone, A History of the Literature of Adam and Eve pp. 39-41. A small fragment of this version was published by W. E. ...

Introduction The Archive has been put together with two purposes in mind. The first is more important: to enhance the study of the Vita itself. But the other purpose is also of some significance: to assemble a wide range of material related to the interpretation of the Life of Adam and Eve in Late A...

Native Title: Vita Adae et Evae ("The Life of Adam and Eve")Original Publication: W. Meyer, "Vita Adae et Evae." Abhandlungen der königlichen Bayerischen Akademie des Wissenschaften, Philosoph.-philologische Klasse. Munich: 14.3, 1878, pp. 185-250.Current Edition Used: The text presented here is bas...

The Biblical Story in Judaism and Christianity PART ONE Introduction and Problems of the Text Individual Versions A. Greek B. Latin C. Armenian D. Georgian E. Slavonic F. Coptic PART TWO Electronic Edition A. Its Potential B. Existing Technology C. Non-Latin Charac...

An obvious desideratum for an electronic publication of the Vita is the ability to represent the various non-Latin texts in machine readable form (Greek, Armenian, Georgian, and Slavonic). At present there are numerous ways to do this on any particular PC or Macintosh (and to a lesser degree the sam...

An additional consideration is the ability to display the texts in a synoptic fashion, in parallel columns. On a conventional word-processor, multi-lingual texts can be presented in such a manner. Indeed this was the way in which Stone and Anderson assembled their first form of the published Synopsi...