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Genesis B
''Genesis B'', also known as ''The Later Genesis'', is a text of ''Genesis'', one of the poems in Old English included in the partially illustrated Junius Manuscript, which has been held in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford since 1677. Scholars regard ''Genesis B'' and other poems in the Junius Manuscript as among the "best of the Anglo-Saxon corpus"〔Oldrieve, para. 1〕
==Background==
The poem commonly known as ''Genesis B'' or ''The Later Genesis'' is embedded in another Old English poem called now ''Genesis A''. Scholars once believed that the legendary first Old English poet Cǣdmon was responsible for not only the Genesis poems but also the entire Junius Manuscript. This theory has long since been disregarded (Weston Wyley 212). The separate existence of ''Genesis B'' (lines 235-851 of the Genesis A poem) was inferred in the 1870s by Eduard Sievers, who by philological and stylistic analysis showed convincingly that these lines were translated from an Old Saxon (continental Low German) original. In 1894 his hypothesis was dramatically confirmed by the discovery of parts of the Old Saxon original in a manuscript in the Vatican: about two dozen lines of the Old Saxon text coincide almost word-for-word with part of ''Genesis B''. Marsden entitles his transcription of ''Genesis B'' “Satan’s Challenge (''Genesis B'')”, effectively summarizing the poem’s general contents. ''Genesis A'' is a paraphase of the Vulgate Latin version of the Book of Genesis chapters 1 to 22, whereas ''Genesis B'' is a strikingly original and dramatic retelling of the Fall of the Angels and the Fall of Man.
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