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in red ink setting it off from the rest of the text. The prose portions are rhythmic and may therefore have been sung, even if they were primarily directorial. Besides the three main soloists, the work was designed for a full choir
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Dumville, David N. (1972). "Liturgical Drama and Panegyric Responsory from the Eighth Century? A Re-examination of the Origin and Contents of the Ninth-Century Section of the Book of Cerne."
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The work ends abruptly here, the rest apparently being lost, but if a comparable Old English work is any indication, Eve's plea is successful.
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they must wait and beg before they too are finally saved. The plea of Eve goes as follows:
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or the earliest surviving work of Christian drama intended to be performed.
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portrayal or as a series of narrations for explaining the poetry.
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to release the "prisoners", the just who were held by
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Doraemon: Nobita's Diary on the Creation of the World
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since, when I was in honour, I did not understand ...
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You are just, Lord, and your judgement is unswerving,
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Index

Latin
Anglo-Saxon
Book of Cerne
Northumbrian
prose
verse
stage directions
dramatic
Adam
Eve
oratorio
homily
Old English
Blickling Homilies
Roman
psalter
Jesus Christ
descended into hell
Satan
ISBN
0-521-39537-2
Pseudo-Augustine
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t
e
Adam and Eve
Genesis creation narrative
Book of Genesis
Adam
Eve

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