Thank you to all who have offered help and suggestions on this. It makes
perfect sense to check Bede, Karolyn, which I will do once I get to a "real"
library!
I suppose I ought to have been clearer about what I am trying to find. More
than just general references to this particular five-part periodization of
salvation history, I am interested in the specific outline of the
generations that George uses--that is, presenting the precise number of
years each man lived followed by the total number of years for that age--
and even more particularly the format of laying the septuagint variations
against the vulgate.
This is part of my attempt to round out an observation that George's
adversus iudeos treatise builds more directly on the Christian literal
exegetical tradition than on contemporary polemical works.
thanks again.
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>From: karolyn <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: liber generationis adam
>Date: Sun, Apr 9, 2000, 6:44 PM
>
> liber generationis adamThe Cursor Mundi is also laid out to cover the seven
> ages, and is a gold-mine of apocryphal tales, including the wonderful Legend
> of the Rood Tree, which could be helpful in tracing the generations from
> Adam to Christ since the Rood makes the trip through them all.
> I was told once in a seminar class that it was Bede who set forth the _six_
> ages of man, but I'd have to get back to you on a source. If you'd like me
> to, I shall look into it.
> Karolyn
>
>
> Karolyn Kinane
> Department of English
> University of Minnesota
> [log in to unmask]
>
> "Wine is a constant proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy."
> -Benjamin Franklin
>
>
> I'm trying to track a possible source for a text/chart detailing the
> generations from Adam to Christ, comparing Vulgate (also referred to as
> "the Hebrew") and Septuagint calculations. The chart appears in a treatise
> by George of Siena, OP called (by later copyists) "116 prophecies against
> the Jews" (1388), in commentary on Genesis 5 (hic est liber generationis
> adam...). It identifies 5 ages from Adam to Christ. The first age extends
> from Adam to Noah, the second from Noah to Abraham, the third from Abraham
> to David, the fourth from David to the Babylonian exile, the fifth from the
> exile to Christ (Daniel's prophecy).
>
> Since almost none of George's treatise is original (what isn't taken
> verbatim from Nicholas of Lyra is mainly taken from Augustine's "City of
> God") I am assuming that George found this arrangement somewhere, too.
> Unfortunately, my access to research materials is limited while I'm teaching
> (small liberal arts college library), but I have so far checked Jerome on
> Genesis, the Glossa Ordinaria and Hugh of St. Cher.
>
> Does this chart sound familiar? Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Deeana Klepper
>
>
>
> Deeana Klepper
> Department of History
> Williams College
> Williamstown, MA 01267
> (413) 597 2125
>
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