Entretien d'Ève et du Serpent (Paris BnF Copte 129.17, f. 1)
· Anonymous
· 12th century (the single leaf is assigned to the 12th c. by Giron)
· apocryphon
no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.
Why this is in the register
The only edition is Noel Giron, Légendes coptes: fragments inédits, publiés, traduits, annotés (Paris: Geuthner, 1907), pp. 23-25, Coptic text with a French translation and no English anywhere in the volume (full text: https://archive.org/details/lgendescoptesfr00revigoog; the table of contents lists 'Entretien d'Eve et du Serpent' as item I). HOLLIS 'Dialogue of Eve and the Serpent' returns 18 records, none a translation of this text (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Dialogue%20of%20Eve%20and%20the%20Serpent&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A Crossref bibliographic search returns no English translation. Coptic Scriptorium's TEI declares translation 'none'.
A single leaf (recto and verso, 317 Coptic words) preserving a retelling of Genesis 3 in which Eve narrates the serpent's approach; the fragment breaks off mid-speech. Giron prints it among five 'légendes coptes'; the other four are Marina, the daughters of Zeno, the emperor's daughter and the Life of John Chrysostom, not biblical apocrypha.
Nguepinsié Nganmini, Michel. "La chute d'Adam et le reniement d'Israël (Gn 3, Ex 32) : une étiologie biblique de la condition humaine." Paris : L'Harmattan, [2025]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99161229709703941
Giallongo, Angela. "The historical enigma of the snake woman from antiquity to the 21st century." Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990152604780203941