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Noah's Flood is one of the Bible's most popular stories, and flood myths survive in many cultures today. This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the Anglo-Saxon imagination. Focusing on literary representations, it contributes to our understanding of how Christian Anglo-Saxons perceived their place in the cosmos. For them, history unfolded between the primeval Deluge and a future - perhaps imminent - flood of fire, which would destroy the world. This study reveals both an imaginative diversity and shared interpretations of the Flood myth. Anglo-Saxons saw the Flood as a climactic event in God's ongoing war with his more rebellious creatures, but they also perceived the mystery of redemption through baptism. Anlezark studies a range of texts against their historical background, and discusses shifting emphases in the way the Flood was interpreted for diverse audiences. The book concludes with a discussion of Beowulf, relating the epic poem's presentation of the Flood myth to that of other Anglo-Saxon texts.

Floods in literature. --- Floods --- Mythology, Anglo-Saxon. --- Christianity and literature --- Deluge in literature. --- Christian literature, English (Old) --- Anglo-Saxon mythology --- Flooding --- Inundations --- Natural disasters --- Water --- Mythology --- History --- History and criticism. --- English literature --- Literature --- Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval --- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General --- European history --- Andreas. --- Anglo-Saxons. --- Bede. --- Beowulf. --- Christianity. --- Exodus. --- Flood myth. --- Noah. --- apocalypse. --- biblical story. --- covenant. --- cultural self-definition. --- historical metaphor. --- inheritance. --- mysticism. --- sin and punishment. --- vital myth.

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First modern edition, with facing translation, of two of the most mysterious Old English texts extant. The dialogues of Solomon and Saturn, found in MSS Corpus Christi College Cambridge 422 and 41, are some of the most complex Old English texts to survive. The first two dialogues, in verse and prose, present the pagan god Saturn inhuman form interrogating King Solomon about the mysterious powers of the Pater Noster, while in a second poem the two discuss in enigmatic terms a range of topics, from the power of books to the limits of free will. This newedition - the first to appear for some 150 years - presents a parallel text and translation, accompanied by notes and commentary. The volume also includes a full introduction, examining the evidence pointing to the influence of Irish continental learning on the dialogues' style and content; arguing that the circle which produced the dialogues was located at Glastonbury in the early tenth century, and included the young Dunstan, future archbishop of Canterbury; and locating the texts in the context of the learned riddling tradition, and philosophical debates current in the ninth and tenth centuries. Dr DANIEL ANLEZARK teaches in the Department of English at the Universityof Sydney.

Saturn (Roman deity) --- Dialogues, English (Old) --- Solomon, --- Anglo-Saxon dialogues --- Dialogues, Anglo-Saxon --- English dialogues, Old --- Old English dialogues --- English literature --- Sulaymān, --- Salomon, --- Sulaiman, --- Nabi Sulaiman --- Shelomoh, --- Salomone, --- Salomo, --- Ḳohelet, --- Suleiman bi Daudi, --- Suleiman, --- Соломон, --- Nabī Sulaymān --- שלמה --- שלמה המלך --- שלמה, --- سليمان --- سليمان, --- Soleiman, --- Sulaymaan, --- Dialogues. --- Manuscripts. --- Ninth Century. --- Old English Texts. --- Saturn. --- Solomon. --- Tenth Century. --- Theological Debates. --- Saturn

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"The Old English poems in this volume are among the first retellings of scriptural texts in a European vernacular. More than simple translations, they recast the familiar plots in daringly imaginative ways, from Satan's seductive pride (anticipating Milton), to a sympathetic yet tragic Eve, to Moses as a headstrong Germanic warrior-king, to the lyrical nature poetry in Azarias. Whether or not the legendary Caedmon authored any of the poems in this volume, they represent traditional verse in all its vigor. Three of them survive as sequential verse in all its vigor. Three of them survive as sequential epics in a manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. The first, the Old English Genesis, recounts biblical history from creation and the apocryphal fall of the angels to the sacrifice of Isaac; Abraham emerges as the central figure struggling through exile toward a lasting covenant with God. The second, Exodus, follows Moses as he leads the Hebrew people out of Egyptian slavery and across the Red Sea. Both Abraham and Moses are transformed into martial heroes in the Anglo-Saxon mold. The last in the triad, Daniel, tells of the trials of the Jewish people in Babylonian exile up through Belshazzar's feast. Azarias, the final poem in this volume (found in an Exeter Cathedral manuscript), relates the apocryphal episode of the three youths in Nebuchadnezzar's furnace."--Book Jacket.

Altenglisch. --- Christian poetry, English (Old). --- Christliche Literatur. --- Christliche Lyrik. --- English poetry --- English poetry. --- History of Biblical events. --- Übersetzung. --- Old English. --- Asarja, --- Altes Testament. --- Bibel. --- Bible. --- Daniel --- Exodus --- Genesis --- History of Biblical events --- 450 - 1100. --- Englisch.

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