The Old English Exodus
Title | The Old English Exodus PDF eBook |
Author | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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"The Old English Exodus is based on full notes for a series of lectures delivered to a special class in Oxford in the 1930s and 1940s; the notes were retouched in the following decade. It was never intended to be an edition, although the lecturer scrupulously drew up and edited text as basis of his commentary. It is an interpretation of the poem, designed to reconstruct the original (as far as that is possible), and to place it in the context of Old English poetry"--Publisher's description
Reading Old English Biblical Poetry
Title | Reading Old English Biblical Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Schrunk Ericksen |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2020-11-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1487507461 |
Reading Old English Biblical Poetry considers the Junius 11 manuscript, the only surviving illustrated book of Old English poetry, in terms of its earliest readers and their multiple strategies of reading and making meaning. Junius 11 begins with the creation story and ends with the final vanquishing of Satan by Jesus. The manuscript is both a continuous whole and a collection with discontinuities and functionally independent pieces. The chapters of Reading Old English Biblical Poetry propose multiple models for reader engagement with the texts in this manuscript, including selective and sequential reading, reading in juxtaposition, and reading in contexts within and outside of the pages of Junius 11. The study is framed by particular attention to the materiality of the manuscript and how that might have informed its early reception, and it broadens considerations of reading beyond those of the manuscript's compiler and possible patron. As a book, Junius 11 reflects a rich and varied culture of reading that existed in and beyond houses of God in England in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and it points to readers who had enough experience to select and find wisdom, narrative pleasure, and a diversity of other things within this or any book's contents.
Old English Biblical Verse
Title | Old English Biblical Verse PDF eBook |
Author | Paul G. Remley |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 1996-06-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 052147454X |
An extended study of the Old Testament poems of the Junius collection as a group.
Exodus
Title | Exodus PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Lucas |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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This volume is one of a series of Old and Middle English texts, including works of interest and importance previously unpublished, long out of print, or otherwise inaccesible to the student. Out of print for some time, this edition of "Exodus" contains many suggestions for solving some of the poem's difficulties. The edition includes a contextual introduction, notes, glossary and bibliography.
The Book of Exodus
Title | The Book of Exodus PDF eBook |
Author | Brevard S. Childs |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Pages | 688 |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0664229689 |
Taking a pioneering approach to commentary writing, Brevard Childs gives an entirely original treatment to the book of Exodus. Apart from the philological notes and translation, this commentary includes a form-critical section, looking at the growth of the tradition in its previous stages; a consideration of the meaning of the text in its present form; and a consideration of its meaning in its total Old Testament context. The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.
Old English Literature and the Old Testament
Title | Old English Literature and the Old Testament PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Fox |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0802098541 |
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.
The Cambridge Old English Reader
Title | The Cambridge Old English Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Marsden |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 616 |
Release | 2015-04-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316240320 |
This reader remains the only major new reader of Old English prose and verse in the past forty years. The second edition is extensively revised throughout, with the addition of a new 'Beginning Old English' section for newcomers to the Old English language, along with a new extract from Beowulf. The fifty-seven individual texts include established favourites such as The Battle of Maldon and Wulfstan's Sermon of the Wolf, as well as others not otherwise readily available, such as an extract from Apollonius of Tyre. Modern English glosses for every prose-passage and poem are provided on the same page as the text, along with extensive notes. A succinct reference grammar is appended, along with guides to pronunciation and to grammatical terminology. A comprehensive glossary lists and analyses all the Old English words that occur in the book. Headnotes to each of the six text sections, and to every individual text, establish their literary and historical contexts, and illustrate the rich cultural variety of Anglo-Saxon England. This second edition is an accessible and scholarly introduction to Old English.