Old Testament Narratives Harvard University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Social Sciences Religion

The Old English Poems In This Volume Are Among First Retellings Of Scriptural Texts A European Vernacular More Than Simple Translations They Recast Familiar Plots Daringly Imaginative Ways From Satan\ S Seductive Pride (Anticipating Milton) To Sympathetic Yet Tragic Eve Moses As Headstrong Germanic Warrior-King Lyrical Nature Poetry Azarias Whether Or Not Legendary Caedmon Authored Any Represent Traditional Verse All Its Vigor Three Them Survive Sequential Epics Manuscript Bodleian Library At Oxford Genesis Recounts Biblical History Creation And Apocryphal Fall Angels Sacrifice Isaac Abraham Emerges Central Figure Struggling Through Exile Toward Lasting Covenant With God Second Exodus Follows He Leads Hebrew People Out Egyptian Slavery Across Red Sea Both Transformed Into Martial Heroes Anglo-Saxon Mold Last Triad Daniel Tells Trials Jewish Babylonian Up Belshazzar\ Feast Final Poem (Found An Exeter Cathedral Manuscript) Relates Episode Youths Nebuchadnezzar\ Furnace Σελίδες: 368 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0523 Διαστάσεις: 13 3X13 3Cm