The Bible In Early English Literature
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The Bible In Early English Literature
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Author : David C. Fowler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
The Bible In Early English Literature written by David C. Fowler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
Old English Literature And The Old Testament
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Author : Michael Fox
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Old English Literature And The Old Testament written by Michael Fox and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Bible in the medieval world. For the Anglo-Saxons, literary culture emerged from sustained and intensive biblical study. Further, at least to judge from the Old English texts which survive, the Old Testament was the primary influence, both in terms of content and modes of interpretation. Though the Old Testament was only partially translated into Old English, recent studies have shown how completely interconnected Anglo-Latin and Old English literary traditions are. Old English Literature and the Old Testament considers the importance of the Old Testament from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, from comparative to intertextual and historical. Though the essays focus on individual works, authors, or trends, including the Interrogationes Sigewulfi, Genesis A, and Daniel, each ultimately speaks to the vernacular corpus as a whole, suggesting approaches and methodologies for further study.
The Bible In Middle English Literature
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Author : David C. Fowler
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2016-06-01
The Bible In Middle English Literature written by David C. Fowler and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-01 with Religion categories.
In this companion to his previous book, The Bible in Early English Literature, David Fowler completes his stimulating and broad-ranging study of medieval English literature in the light of biblical tradition. As in the first volume, he both provides a broad general view of literary trends and closely examines representative works that illustrate these trends. The author begins by discussing medieval drama in England--with special attention to the Cornish drama-- as revealed in the cycle plays that enacted the entire history of the world from Creation to Doomsday. He demonstrates how the drama grew out of the liturgy of the Church and developed into a parallel fashion with other kinds of vernacular literature in the later Middle Ages, and he offers a possible explanation of the origin of the morality play in England. This is followed by an examination of representative shorter medieval lyrics. Fowler shows that many of these lyrics were composed to memorialize particular “secular’ and “religious” elements blended subtly and distinctively in Middle English lyrics, often with a complete harmony of sacred and sexual significance. A special section deals with Mary Magdalene in popular tradition, comparing her description in the Bible with her treatment in legend, drama, lyric poetry, and the ballad. The final three chapters focus on particular literary works which the author believes to be outstanding examples of poems composed in the biblical tradition. “The Parliament of Fowls” is selected as the best example of biblical influence in all of Chaucer. The work is seen as a Creation poem with its organizing principles derives from commentaries on the first chapter of Genesis--a new theory of the poem’s structure which the author feels resolves many of the difficulties previously encountered by scholars. Fowler than treats several works of the “Pearl” poet--“Cleanness,” “Patience,” “Saint Erkenwald,” and the “Pearl”--in their particular blend of humor, seriousness, and Christian serenity. In stark contrast, “Piers the Plowman,” the final work dealt with, reflects the agony of the turmoil of late fourteenth-century England. The emphasis is on the historical significance of the poem: the importance of the A text as an ideological influence on the leadership of the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381, and the exschatological implications of the later versions (B and C texts). “It is my hope,” the author states, “that future studies of ‘Piers’ will increasingly take history into account and likewise study the versions of the poem separately. Until we learn to walk from this text out into history, we run the risk of missing the important message that this profound and troubling poem offers to twentieth-century man.” This book will be of value both to scholars and students of medieval literature and religion and to general readers interested in the varied and intriguing ways that the Bible has influence vernacular literature.
A History Of The English Bible As Literature
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Author : David Norton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-05-29
A History Of The English Bible As Literature written by David Norton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-29 with Bibles categories.
This book, first published in 2000, explores 500 years of religious and literary ideas contained in the King James Bible.
The Bible In Translation
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Author : Bruce M. Metzger
language : en
Publisher: Baker Academic
Release Date : 2001-10
The Bible In Translation written by Bruce M. Metzger and has been published by Baker Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10 with Religion categories.
Outlines the historical development of biblical translation, including analyses of over fifty versions of the Bible.
A Dictionary Of Biblical Tradition In English Literature
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Author : David Lyle Jeffrey
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 1992
A Dictionary Of Biblical Tradition In English Literature written by David Lyle Jeffrey and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.
Over 15 years in the making, an unprecedented one-volume reference work. Many of today's students and teachers of literature, lacking a familiarity with the Bible, are largely ignorant of how Biblical tradition has influenced and infused English literature through the centuries. An invaluable research tool. Contains nearly 800 encyclopedic articles written by a distinguished international roster of 190 contributors. Three detailed annotated bibliographies. Cross-references throughout.
The Psalms And Medieval English Literature
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Author : Tamara Atkin
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2017
The Psalms And Medieval English Literature written by Tamara Atkin and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Literary Criticism categories.
An examination of how The Book of Psalms shaped medieval thought and helped develop the medieval English literary canon.
The Bible In Early English Literature
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Author : David C. Fowler
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2018-03-05
The Bible In Early English Literature written by David C. Fowler and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this companion to his previous book, The Bible in Early English Literature, David Fowler completes his stimulating and broad-ranging study of medieval English literature in the light of biblical tradition. As in the first volume, he both provides a broad general view of literary trends and closely examines representative works that illustrate these trends. The author begins by discussing medieval drama in England--with special attention to the Cornish drama-- as revealed in the cycle plays that enacted the entire history of the world from Creation to Doomsday. He demonstrates how the drama grew out of the liturgy of the Church and developed into a parallel fashion with other kinds of vernacular literature in the later Middle Ages, and he offers a possible explanation of the origin of the morality play in England. This is followed by an examination of representative shorter medieval lyrics. Fowler shows that many of these lyrics were composed to memorialize particular "secular' and "religious" elements blended subtly and distinctively in Middle English lyrics, often with a complete harmony of sacred and sexual significance. A special section deals with Mary Magdalene in popular tradition, comparing her description in the Bible with her treatment in legend, drama, lyric poetry, and the ballad. The final three chapters focus on particular literary works which the author believes to be outstanding examples of poems composed in the biblical tradition. "The Parliament of Fowls" is selected as the best example of biblical influence in all of Chaucer. The work is seen as a Creation poem with its organizing principles derives from commentaries on the first chapter of Genesis--a new theory of the poem's structure which the author feels resolves many of the difficulties previously encountered by scholars. Fowler than treats several works of the "Pearl" poet--"Cleanness," "Patience," "Saint Erkenwald," and the "Pearl"--in their particular blend of humor, seriousness, and Christian serenity. In stark contrast, "Piers the Plowman," the final work dealt with, reflects the agony of the turmoil of late fourteenth-century England. The emphasis is on the historical significance of the poem: the importance of the A text as an ideological influence on the leadership of the Peasants' Revolt in 1381, and the exschatological implications of the later versions (B and C texts). "It is my hope," the author states, "that future studies of 'Piers' will increasingly take history into account and likewise study the versions of the poem separately. Until we learn to walk from this text out into history, we run the risk of missing the important message that this profound and troubling poem offers to twentieth-century man." This book will be of value both to scholars and students of medieval literature and religion and to general readers interested in the varied and intriguing ways that the Bible has influence vernacular literature.
The Blackwell Companion To The Bible In English Literature
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Author : Rebecca Lemon
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2010-03-25
The Blackwell Companion To The Bible In English Literature written by Rebecca Lemon and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-25 with Religion categories.
This Companion explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages. An ambitious overview of the Bible's impact on English literature – as arguably the most powerful work of literature in history – from the medieval period through to the twentieth-century Includes introductory sections to each period giving background information about the Bible as a source text in English literature, and placing writers in their historical context Draws on examples from medieval, early-modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature Includes many 'secular' or 'anti-clerical' writers alongside their 'Christian' contemporaries, revealing how the Bible's text shifts and changes in the writing of each author who reads and studies it
The Bible As English Literature
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Author : John Hays Gardiner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1906
The Bible As English Literature written by John Hays Gardiner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1906 with Bible as literature categories.