Author: Barnhouse, Rebecca & Withers, Benjamin C [editors]
Title: The Old English Hexateuch - Aspects And Approaches
Description: Medieval Institute Publications - Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 2000, 1st edition. Faux leather, F. xvi+358pp, 31 b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy. Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Centre series. Hardback , no dustjacket. ISBN: 158044024X ¶ A collection of 10 essays on British Library MS Cotton MS Claudius B IV, which was an Anglo Saxon attempt to translate the first six books of the Hebrew OT into Old English. The project was carried out under the assumed editorship of AElfric of Eynsham. Contains - The Preface As Admonition : AElfric's Preface To Genesis By Melinda J Menzer - Translation By Committee ? The "Anonymous" Text Of The Old English Hexateuch By Richard Marsden - Shaping The Hexateuch Text For An Anglo-Saxon Audience By Rebecca Barnhouse - Assessing The Liturgical Canticles From The Old English Hexateuch By Sarah Larratt Keefer - Fragmentary Versions Of Genesis In Old English Prose : Context And Function By Mary P Richards - A Program Of Illumination In The Old English Illustrated Hexateuch : "Visual Typology"? By David F Johnson - The Anglo-Saxon Genesis : Text, Illustration, And Audience By Catherine E Karkov - The First Laugh : Laughter In Genesis And The Old English Tradition By Jonathan Wilcox - Early Modern Users Of Claudius B IV Robert Talbot And William L'Isle By Timothy Graham - A Sense Of Englishness : Claudius B. IV, Colonialism, And The History Of Anglo-Saxon Art In The Mid-Twentieth Century By Benjamin C Withers.

Keywords: ISBN 158044024X, anglo saxon history, theology, old testament, old english, hexateuch, bibles 158044024X