Old Testament NarrativesPevná vazba
Old Testament NarrativesPevná vazba The Old English poems in this volume are among the first retellings of scriptural texts in a European vernacular. Three of them survive as sequential epics in a…
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Old Testament NarrativesPevná vazba
The Old English poems in this volume are among the first retellings of scriptural texts in a European vernacular. Three of them survive as sequential epics in a manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. More than simple translations, they recast the familiar plots in daringly imaginative ways, from Satan's seductive pride (anticipating Milton), to a sympathetic yet tragic Eve, to Moses as a headstrong Germanic warrior-king, to the lyrical nature poetry in Azarias.Whether or not the legendary Caedmon authored any of the poems in this volume, they represent traditional verse in all its vigor.
The second, Exodus, follows Moses as he leads the The first, the Old English Genesis, recounts biblical history from creation and the apocryphal fall of the angels to the sacrifice of Isaac; Abraham emerges as the central figure struggling through exile toward a lasting covenant with God.