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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fox, Michael.

Sharma, Manish.

Series:

Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 10.

Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--In literature.

Bible.

English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 in terms of content and modes of interpretation. Though the Old Testament was only partially translated into Old English, recent studies have shown how completely interconnected Anglo-Latin and Old English literary traditions are.Old English Literature and the Old Testament considers the importance of the Old Testament from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from comparative to intertextual and historical. Though the essays focus on individual works, authors, or trends, including the Interrogationes Sigewulfi, Genesis A, and Daniel, each ultimately speaks to the vernacular corpus as a whole, suggesting approaches and methodologies for further study.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

9781442620261

1442620269

9781442664296

1442664290

OCLC:

794619812