Two Old English Apocrypha and their Manuscript Source - The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour (Hardcover, New)


In the course of this work Professor Cross presents the discovery of the actual manuscript source for the Old English versions of two biblical apocrypha, The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour. Together with four other scholars, Professor Cross explores the implications of this discovery, in the field of Anglo-Saxon studies. Here, parallel editions of the relevant Latin and Old English texts are given, together with modern English translations, and detailed discussion outlines the background to the Latin texts, and to the manuscript which contains them. The assembled material provides an insight not only into the transmission of two apocryphal texts, but also into the mind of the single Anglo-Saxon translator who, it is argued, struggled in his own idiosyncratic fashion to make two badly spelt and incomplete Latin originals his own.

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In the course of this work Professor Cross presents the discovery of the actual manuscript source for the Old English versions of two biblical apocrypha, The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour. Together with four other scholars, Professor Cross explores the implications of this discovery, in the field of Anglo-Saxon studies. Here, parallel editions of the relevant Latin and Old English texts are given, together with modern English translations, and detailed discussion outlines the background to the Latin texts, and to the manuscript which contains them. The assembled material provides an insight not only into the transmission of two apocryphal texts, but also into the mind of the single Anglo-Saxon translator who, it is argued, struggled in his own idiosyncratic fashion to make two badly spelt and incomplete Latin originals his own.

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Imprint

Cambridge UniversityPress

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Series

Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England

Release date

1997

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Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

First published

1996

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Dimensions

229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

324

Edition

New

ISBN-13

978-0-521-56194-5

Barcode

9780521561945

Categories

LSN

0-521-56194-9



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