Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse : Becoming the Chosen People / Samantha Zacher.

Author
Zacher, Samantha, 1973- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Description
1 online resource (217 p.)

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Series
New Directions in Religion and Literature [More in this series]
Summary note
  • "The Bible played a crucial role in shaping Anglo-Saxon national and cultural identity. However, access to Biblical texts was necessarily limited to very few individuals in Medieval England. In this book, Samantha Zacher explores how the very earliest English Biblical poetry creatively adapted, commented on and spread Biblical narratives and traditions to the wider population. Systematically surveying the manuscripts of surviving poems, the book shows how these vernacular poets commemorated the Hebrews as God's 'chosen people' and claimed the inheritance of that status for Anglo-Saxon England. Drawing on contemporary translation theory, the book undertakes close readings of the poems Exodus, Daniel and Judith in order to examine their methods of adaptation for their particular theologico-political circumstances and the way they portray and problematize Judaeo-Christian religious identities"--Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • "Through innovative close-readings of surviving manuscripts, this book explores how early Anglo-Saxon poetry adapted Biblical narratives to construct and disseminate a coherent Anglo-Saxon cultural identity"--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
English
Contents
  • Introduction: The Bible as Literature in Anglo-Saxon England
  • 1. Reading and Rewriting the Bible in Anglo-Saxon England
  • 2. Reconstructing the Ethnogenetic Myths of the Hebrews in Exodus
  • 3. Daniel and the Theme of translatio electionis
  • 4. Reading Religious, Racial, and Ethnic Difference in Judith
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.
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ISBN
  • 1-4411-5093-5
  • 1-4725-4386-6
  • 1-4411-2110-2
OCLC
1057401760
Doi
  • 10.5040/9781472543868
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