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The Genesis is one of four poems that comprises the partially illustrated Junius Manuscript, and has been held in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford since 1677. Named for the scholar who owned, studied and first published the manuscript in 1655, the poems in the Junius Manuscript are among the “best of the Anglo-Saxon corpus” (Oldrieve para. 1). The poem commonly known as Genesis B or The Later Genesis is embedded in another Old English poem called now Genesis A; the separate existence of Genesis B (lines 235-851 of the Genesis poem)was inferred by Eduard Sievers in the 1870's 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 Genesis chapters 1-22, while Genesis B is a strikingly original and dramatic retelling of the Fall of the Angels and the Fall of Man.