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Samantha Zacher - Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse

Becoming the Chosen People

Av Samantha Zacher

Del i serien New Directions in Religion and Literature

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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.
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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).

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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!

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