Bibliography

McNamara, Martin, “Irish”, in: Alexander Kulik, Gabriele Boccaccini, Lorenzo DiTommaso, David Hamidovic, Michael Stone, and Jason Zurawski (eds), A guide to early Jewish text and traditions in Christian transmission, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 211–236.

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“Irish”
Work
Alexander Kulik (ed.) • Gabriele Boccaccini (ed.) • Lorenzo DiTommaso (ed.) • David Hamidovic (ed.) • Michael Stone (ed.) • Jason Zurawski (ed.), A guide to early Jewish text and traditions in Christian transmission (2019)
Pages
211–236
Year
2019
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Abstract (cited)
In the early Irish Church (600–800 CE) there were apocrypha of Oriental origin and in the tenth-century poem Saltair na Rann (“Psalter of Quatrains”) the account of the Fall of Adam and Eve is recognized as having analogues with rabbinic tradition and also a poem on Adam’s head. This essay first considers Jewish texts that have, or may have, influenced Irish tradition. Jewish influence on Irish traditions is then considered: Latin conjoined treatises on Adam and Eve; Adam created in agro Damasceno, in the field of Damascus; the seven or eight parts from which Adam was made; the four elements from which Adam was made (with rabbinic analogues); the naming of Adam (Slavonic Enoch and Sibylline Oracles 3:24–26); Penance of Adam and Eve; Sunday, Sabbath, respite for the damned; XV Signs before Doomsday; Jewish traditions in Saltair na Rann; the influence of Hebrew Bible traditions on early Irish genealogies and imagined prehistory.
(source: Oxford Scholarship Online)
Subjects and topics
Headings
Irish religious literature Irish legendary history apocryphal and pseudepigraphical literature Judaism
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fifteen signs before Doomsday Adam octipartite (or septipartite)
Keywords
Enoch Slavonic Enoch Sibylline Oracles Vita Adae Evae Adam eight/four elements Penance of Adam damned Sabbath respite doomsday signs