1: Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Adambooks, and the Vita Adae et
Evae
2: Ireland
3: England, Wales, and Cornwall
4: The Holy Roman Empire and Beyond
5: France, Brittany, and Italy
6: Iconography
7: Litteras achiliachas: Conclusion
8: Appendix: An Overview of the Vernacular Texts
Bibliography
Index
Brian Murdoch is Professor Emeritus of German in the School of
Languages, Cultures and Religions at the University of Stirling. He
taught in Glasgow University and at the University of Illinois in
Chicago before coming to Stirling in 1972. He has been Hulsean
Lecturer in Divinity at Cambridge and Speaker's Lecturer in
Biblical Studies at Oxford, and gave the Waynflete Lectures at
Magdalen College, Oxford. He has held Visiting Fellowships at
Magdalen and Oriel in
Oxford and Trinity Hall in Cambridge. He has published books,
editions and articles on the Adam-literature as found in Latin,
German, English, Irish, Breton and Cornish, as well as other
studies of
biblical material, especially on the popular Bible in European
vernaculars. He has also written books on Old High German, on
Cornish literature, on the Germanic heroic epic, and on modern
literature concerned with the world wars.
Vita Adae et Evae and its offspring find their guide and historian
in Professor Murdoch. He is an engaging one, but also thorough and
hard-working. For decades to come, seekers of information on texts,
sources, or variants will come to him. ... his work is something of
a tour de force:ambitious, detailed, accurate.
*Andrew Breeze, Medium Aevum 2010*
...[a] masterful study...gratitude and admiration are due to
Professor Murdoch and his accomplishment, a veritable catalogue
raisonné of the Life of Adam and Eve in its numerous translations
and adaptations.
*Johannes Magliano-Tromp The Journal of Theological Studies Vol 62
Part 2 Oct 2011*
Such a publication might even inspire non-specialists to start
their own explorations into Adam and Eve's neglected past and the
world of medieval storytelling or theology
*Times Literary Supplement*
The Adam legends are material worth studying for several reasons,
not least because they were once so present that they must have
been part of the consciousness of everyone in the continent, but
for precisely this reason the task of forming a picture of the
whole tradition from the transmitted fragments is a jigsaw puzzle
which challenges philological method at its best. In this carefully
written volume, Brian Murdoch allows the layman to approach these
questions with a breadth of perspective which would previously have
been much harder work.
*Graeme Dunphy, Literature & Theology*
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