THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WOMAN AND DEVIL IN GENESIS B OF JUNIUS MANUSCRIPT
Abstract
The Garden of Eden's gene narrative is popularly known as the story of the fall of mankind caused by the Devil's temptation towards women, which led man to sin. Since the Bible, also passing through the comments of the first priests of the Church, in the beginning of the Middle Ages, the image of the Devil in the Garden narrative has always appeared in the form of a serpent that led the woman to sin, deceiving her, since Eva had not been able to recognize Evil in her reptilian appearance. The purpose of this article is to analyze the Saxon poem entitled Genesis B, present in the Bodleian Junius 11, dating from the 10th century, around the year 1000, and published for the first time by Franciscus Junius, in 1655, investigating the relationship between woman and the devil in the Saxon Garden of Eden narrative present in this poem. Our proposal is to understand the figure of the Devil in the aforementioned poem and the relationship that is established between him and the woman, and what implications we could perceive in this new guise given to the Devil with regard to the relationship that the feminine would come to have with the demonic, centuries after the writing of the Saxon poem, in the period that we know as the witch hunt. We will work on Susan Oldrieve's translation of the Saxon text into English. Then, we put the translations into Portuguese in order to allow a better understanding of the excerpts cited.
