Talk:Middle English Story of Genesis and Exodus

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I think the name of this article should be changed to The Story of Genesis and Exodus, as that seems to be its name. Please see The Story of Genesis and Exodus. Editor2020 (talk) 04:11, 3 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Like most medieval works, this one has no original manuscript title, only modern titles, so there is no "right" title, just a majority consensus. The Morris edition (the influential first edition) calls it The Story of Genesis and Exodus, the Arngardt edition (the critical edition that scholars actually use) calls it The Middle English Genesis and Exodus, Birch just calls it Genesis and Exodus, and the current title of this article (Middle English Story of Genesis and Exodus) is a hybrid of these taken from some of the literature on cosmology (see this Google search). When I chose that as the title for the article my thinking was that it best represents the whole range of titles used to date. I would not resist a move if you want to make one, but don't just jump unthinkingly to 19th-century Morris. Is there evidence for current consensus in the scholarly literature on the Biblical epic? --Doric Loon (talk) 10:33, 16 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

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