Old English Literature and the Old Testament /

Old English Literature and the Old Testament / / ed. by Michael Fox, Manish Sharma.

It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Bible in the medieval world. For the Anglo-Saxons, literary culture emerged from sustained and intensive biblical study. Further, at least to judge from the Old English texts which survive, the Old Testament was the primary influence, both...

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MitwirkendeR:
Elliot, Michael D.,
Fleming, Damian,
Fox, Michael,
Harris, Stephen J.,
Poole, Russell,
Portnoy, Phyllis,
Sharma, Manish,
Szarmach, Paul E.,
Toswell, M. J.,
Waugh, Robin,
Wright, Charles D.,
Zacher, Samantha,
HerausgeberIn:
Fox, Michael,
Sharma, Manish,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2011
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • The Old Testament and Old English Prose
  • Ælfric's Interrogationes Sigewulfi
  • Ælfric's Judith
  • Circumscribing the Text: Views on Circumcision in Old English Literature
  • The Old Testament and the Poems of the Junius Manuscript
  • Genesis A ad litteram
  • The Economy of the Word in the Old English Exodus
  • Daniel and the Dew-Laden Wind: Sources and Structures
  • The Old Testament and Other Old English Poems
  • Rex regum et cyninga cyning: 'Speaking Hebrew' in Cynewulf's Elene
  • The City as Speaker of the Old Testament in Andreas
  • Cyningas sigefæste þurh God: Contributions from Anglo-Saxon England to Early Advocacy for Óláfr Haraldsson
  • Happiness and the Psalms
  • The Old English Kentish Psalm and Polysystems Theory
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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