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Luther's Heliand : resurrection of the Old Saxon epic in Leipzig / Timothy Blaine Price.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Price, Timothy Blaine, 1978-
- Series:
- Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics ; v. 80.
- Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics ; v. 80
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heliand--Influence.
- Heliand.
- Old Saxon language.
- Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig.
- Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.
- Luther, Martin.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Peter Lang, [2011]
- Summary:
- This work is the result of a research project by Price (PhD, Germanic linguistics, U. of California at Berkeley) that began with the investigation of the age and authorship of the Old Saxon Heliand manuscript fragment--the Heliand being an epic poem and biblical paraphrase that recounts the life of Jesus in the style of Germanic saga--which was found in Leipzig in 2006 and claimed to be the oldest Heliand manuscript fragment found to date by its discoverer. During his investigations, the focus of the research turned to the connections between the manuscript and a rumor about Martin Luther having possessed an ancient Germanic biblical codex and the role of that codex in Luther's translation of the New Testament Gospels. He compares his own transcriptions of the six known Heliand manuscripts in order to see where they overlap with each other, as well as with Luther's translations, while also conducting a historical investigation of the connections of the Heliand to Leipzig (the geographical provenance of the rumor linking Luther with a Germanic biblical codex) and the Heliand fragment's origins and likely location prior to Leipzig. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1433113945
- 9781433113949
- OCLC:
- 741937615
- Publisher Number:
- 99945274063
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