Old English literature and the Old Testament /
"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,...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press
©2012.
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| Series: | Toronto Anglo-Saxon series.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442664296 |
Table of Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""The Old Testament and Old English Prose""; ""Ã?lfric's Interrogationes Sigewulfi""; ""Ã?lfric'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 sigef�ste �urh God: Contributions from Anglo-Saxon England to Early Advocacy for �láfr Haraldsson""; ""Happiness and the Psalms""; ""The Old English Kentish Psalm and Polysystems Theory""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""