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Old English Literature and the Old Testament

✍ Scribed by Michael Fox (editor); Manish Sharma (editor)

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Leaves
407
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Old Testament and Old English Prose
Γ†lfric’s Interrogationes Sigewulfi
Γ†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: β€˜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 ÓlÑfr Haraldsson
Happiness and the Psalms
The Old English Kentish Psalm and Polysystems Theory
Bibliography
Index

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