ENGL 141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Elaine Pagels, Genesis B, Recto And Verso
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Debates in christianity of what books are considered sacred or not. Jewish bible was originally translated into greek and then latin. King james was considered the revival for the bible. In heroic tradition, the hero is the warrior. In religious tradition, the hero is a saint and sometimes christ. Borrowed-body theory: satan borrowed the body of the serpent to move around, speak, and fool eve. Diabolical possession - an idea older than christianity. A leaf or two is missing = refers to page (the leaf) So we"re missing about 120 lines in the poem, therefore we don"t know. Lacuna = latin for a missing portion. Musical punctuations - set of clues for performance. ****check out the book adam, eve and the serpent by elaine pagels for research papers. According to milton, god gives the commands to adam and adam gives the commands to eve. Er = refers to the degree in adjectives.
