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The Saxon Savior: The Germanic Transformation of the Gospel in the Ninth-Century Heliand

The Saxon Savior: The Germanic Transformation of the Gospel in the Ninth-Century Heliand

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Literary CriticismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0195097203
ISBN13: 9780195097207
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 19 1995
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.61 Depth: 8.28
Language: English
This study is an interpretation and appreciation of the art of he Heliand, the 9th century Saxon epic poem in which the Christian Gospel of the four evangelist is translated in Germanic terms. Murphy examines in detail the ingenious and sensitive poetic analogies through which familiar texts--the Nativity, the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes and the Lord's Prayer, the Passion and Resurrection--are transformed into Germanic settings and concepts. The first book in English on The Heliand, this study offers a new socio-political explanation of the possible motives of the unknown author in undertaking this enormous and brilliantly realized poetic task.

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