Samantha Zacher is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University, USA. She is the author of Preaching the Converted: the Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies (2009), and co-editor with Andy Orchard of New Readings in the Vercelli Book (2009).

In Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse, Samantha Zacher brilliantly reasserts the centrality and importance of retellings of ancient Jewish history in the Old English poetic tradition, and almost casually offers dramatic new insights into three poems, namely Exodus, Daniel, and Judith, that all deserve to be better read, and have never yet been read so well. This is a deeply thoughtful and thought-provoking book, well worthy of its wise and witty author: elegant, perceptive, savvy, and full of poise and grace; I only wish it were mine! Andy Orchard, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford, UK As deeply learned as it is readily accessible, Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse sheds significant new light on the large and important area of the Old English poetic corpus. Readers new to the period will find it an excellent introduction not only to the period's religious poetry but to the culture that produced it, and specialist readers will find their understanding of the texts Zacher examines deepened, and frequently challenged, by the fresh insights and new perspectives she offers throughout. Mark C. Amodio, Professor of English, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, USA

• 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.

Samantha Zacher is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University, USA. She is the author of Preaching the Converted: the Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies (2009), and co-editor with Andy Orchard of New Readings in the Vercelli Book (2009).

In Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse, Samantha Zacher brilliantly reasserts the centrality and importance of retellings of ancient Jewish history in the Old English poetic tradition, and almost casually offers dramatic new insights into three poems, namely Exodus, Daniel, and Judith, that all deserve to be better read, and have never yet been read so well. This is a deeply thoughtful and thought-provoking book, well worthy of its wise and witty author: elegant, perceptive, savvy, and full of poise and grace; I only wish it were mine! Andy Orchard, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford, UK As deeply learned as it is readily accessible, Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse sheds significant new light on the large and important area of the Old English poetic corpus. Readers new to the period will find it an excellent introduction not only to the period's religious poetry but to the culture that produced it, and specialist readers will find their understanding of the texts Zacher examines deepened, and frequently challenged, by the fresh insights and new perspectives she offers throughout. Mark C. Amodio, Professor of English, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, USA

• 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.