The Story of Genesis and Exodus: An Early English Song, about 1250 A.D.
Morris
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The writing is clear and regular; the letters are large, but the words are often very close together.
This practice is much more frequent in the Bestiary, which is a proof, perhaps, that the present poem has suffered somewhat in the course of transcription.
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- DESCRIPTION OF THE MANUSCRIPT, ETC.Sample
- DESCRIPTION OF THE POEM.
- LAMECH'S BIGAMY.
- DEATH OF CAIN.
- HOW THE CHILD MOSES BEHAVED BEFORE PHARAOH.
- HOW MOSES DEFEATED THE ETHIOPIANS.
- THE PLAGUE OF FROGS.
- DATE AND DIALECT OF THE POEM.
- GRAMMATICAL DETAILS.
- THE METRE OF THE POEM.
- CONTRACTIONS USED IN THE GLOSSARY.
- THE STORY OF GENESIS AND EXODUS, ETC.
- GOD MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH BY HIS WORD.
- THE DEVIL'S FALL FROM HEAVEN. THE FIRST LIGHT DAWNS.
- THE STARS ARE SET, AND FOWL AND FISH ARE MADE.
- CATTLE ARE MADE FOR MAN'S SERVICE. ADAM IS CREATED.
- OF PARADISE AND THE CREATION OF EVE.
- THE SEVENTH DAY IS MADE A DAY OF REST.
- LUCIFER IS CAST INTO HELL, AND THERE PLOTS MAN'S FALL.
- EVE AND ADAM EAT THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT.
- GOD'S CURSE ON ADAM AND EVE, AND THE ADDER.
- EVE BEGETS CAIN AND ABEL, AND OTHER CHILDREN.
- CAIN BUILDS ENO. LAMECH BEGINS BIGAMY.
- LAMECH KILLS CAIN AND HIS OWN SERVANT.
- OF SETH, ENOCH, METHUSELAH, AND NOAH.
- OF THE WORLD'S CORRUPTION AND NOAH'S FLOOD.
- THE BUILDING OF THE ARK. THE FLOOD.
- THE ARK STOOD IN ARMENIA.
- THE RAINBOW APPEARS IN THE WELKIN.
- CONFUSION OF TONGUES. ORIGIN OF IDOLATRY.
- ABRAM LEAVES MESOPOTAMIA.
- ABRAM REACHES CANAAN. HE GOES TO EGYPT.
- PHARAOH TAKES AWAY SARAI, AND IS PUNISHED BY A PLAGUE.
- ABRAM DWELLS AT MAMRE. LOT IN SODOM.
- THE BATTLE OF FOUR KINGS AGAINST FIVE.
- ABRAM RESCUES LOT. MELCHIZEDEK BLESSES HIM.
- ABRAM COMPLAINS FOR WANT OF AN HEIR.
- SARAI BEING BARREN GIVES HAGAR TO ABRAM.
- ISHMAEL IS BORN. CIRCUMCISION IS INSTITUTED.
- ABRAHAM IS PROMISED A SON.
- LOT ENTERTAINS TWO ANGELS.
- THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH.
- THE BIRTHS OF AMMON AND MOAB.
- ABRAHAM DWELLS IN GERAR.
- ABIMELECH COVENANTS WITH ABRAHAM,
- AND GIVES HIM THE WELL OF BEERSHEBA.
- THE OFFERING OF ISAAC.
- ELIEZER IS SENT TO MESOPOTAMIA.
- ELIEZER MEETS WITH REBEKAH.
- ISAAC TAKES REBEKAH TO WIFE.
- THE BIRTH OF ESAU AND JACOB.
- THE PRIVILEGES OF THE FIRST BORN.
- JACOB DEFRAUDS ESAU OF THE BLESSING.
- ESAU THREATENS TO KILL JACOB.
- JACOB IS SENT TO PADAN-ARAM.
- FROM LUZ HE JOURNEYS TO HARAN.
- JACOB COVENANTS FOR RACHEL.
- JACOB MARRIES RACHEL.
- JACOB LEAVES LABAN SECRETLY.
- THE COVENANT BETWEEN JACOB AND LABAN.
- THE MEETING OF ESAU AND JACOB.
- JACOB DWELLS AT SUCCOTH. DINAH'S FOLLY.
- BENJAMIN IS BORN. RACHEL DIES.
- JOSEPH IS HATED BY HIS BRETHREN.
- JOSEPH IS SOLD TO CHAPMEN,
- WHO SELL HIM TO POTIPHAR, AN EGYPTIAN.
- JOSEPH IS CAST INTO PRISON.
- HE INTERPRETS THE PRISONERS' DREAMS.
- KING PHARAOH DREAMS A DREAM,
- WHICH IS INTERPRETED BY JOSEPH.
- THE FAMINE IN EGYPT AND CANAAN.
- JOSEPH'S HARSHNESS TO HIS BRETHREN.
- BENJAMIN IS TAKEN TO EGYPT.
- JOSEPH'S INTERVIEW WITH HIS BRETHREN.
- THE BRETHREN ARE ACCUSED OF THEFT.
- JOSEPH MAKES HIMSELF KNOWN TO HIS BRETHREN.
- JACOB AND HIS FAMILY GO INTO EGYPT.
- THEY DWELL IN THE LAND OF GOSHEN.
- THE DEATH OF JACOB.
- HE IS BURIED IN HEBRON.
- THE DEATH OF JOSEPH.
- THE OPPRESSION OF THE ISRAELITES.
- TEREMUTH ADOPTS HIM AS HER SON.
- AND ARE DEFEATED BY MOSES.
- MOSES SLAYS AN EGYPTIAN,
- GOD APPEARS TO MOSES AT SINAI.
- MOSES AND AARON ARE SENT TO EGYPT.
- GREATER LABOURS ARE LAID UPON THE ISRAELITES.
- MOSES AND AARON PERFORM MIRACLES BEFORE PHARAOH.
- THE WATERS ARE TURNED INTO BLOOD.
- THE PLAGUES OF FROGS AND GNATS.
- PLAGUES OF FLIES, BOILS, AND BLAINS,
- HAIL-STORM, AND GRASSHOPPERS.
- PLAGUES OF LOCUSTS AND DARKNESS.
- THE INSTITUTION OF THE PASSOVER.
- THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FIRST-BORN.
- THE ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT.
- THE ISRAELITES CROSS THE RED SEA.
- THE EGYPTIAN HOSTS ARE DROWNED.
- THE SOJOURN AT SHUR, ELIM, AND SIN.
- THE MIRACULOUS FALL OF MANNA.
- THE ISRAELITES OVERCOME THE AMALEKITES.
- JETHRO VISITS MOSES.
- THE PEOPLE COME TO SINAI.
- MOSES RECEIVES THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
- THE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID.
- THEY WORSHIP A GOLDEN CALF.
- THE IDOLATERS ARE SLAIN.
- THE TABLES ARE RENEWED.
- THE BURNING AT TABERAH.
- MIRIAM IS SMITTEN WITH LEPROSY.
- THE REPORT OF THE SPIES.
- THE REBELLION OF KORAH AND ABIRAM.
- A PLAGUE SLAYS FOURTEEN THOUSAND PEOPLE.
- THE PRIESTHOOD OF AARON CONFIRMED.
- THE DEATH OF AARON AT HOR.
- SIHON AND OG ARE OVERCOME.
- BALAAM SETS OUT TO CURSE ISRAEL.
- BALAAM'S ASS SPEAKS.
- BALAAM BLESSES ISRAEL.
- WHOREDOM AND IDOLATRY PUNISHED.
- MOSES DIES IN MOAB.
- MAY GOD SHIELD US FROM HELL'S NIGHT!
- NOTES.
- GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
- INDEX OF NAMES.
- INDEX OF RIMES.
- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE INDEX OF RIMES.