- Publisher: Liverpool UP
- Year: 2020
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 190x128mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781789621464
- Product code: 538026
Exodus
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The main narrative thread of the Old English poem Exodus is the Israelites’ departure from Egypt and the crossing of the Red Sea, but the most powerful unifying factor in the poem is its theme of salvation by faith and obedience. This critical edition presents the full text and commentary, with a substantial introduction, a glossary and select bibliography. Third edition.
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Exodus is an exceptional Old English poem, written at a time when in the age of Bede Northern England held the intellectual leadership of Europe. It offers a vernacular gateway to the study of early medieval christian poetry. Focussing in dramatic fashion on the crossing of the Red Sea enabling the Israelites to escape captivity in Egypt the poem is stylistically outstanding, showing a use of metaphor and fusion of disparate concepts (such as abstract and concrete, literal and allegorical) unparalleled in Old English poetry. The exodus, the greatest of Old Testament events, is interpreted both within the historical perspective of other Old Testament events (the Deluge and the Offering of Isaac) and within the allegorical perspective of the exodus to the Promised Land seen as the christian's journey through life to the ultimate heavenly home.
This book, now in its third edition, aims to make the poem more accessible, and better understood and appreciated than hitherto. A number of changes to the Introduction, Commentary and Glossary, as well as a new Select Bibliography, help to bring the apparatus up to date and draw attention to the many fine contributions to the poem made by other scholars.
This book, now in its third edition, aims to make the poem more accessible, and better understood and appreciated than hitherto. A number of changes to the Introduction, Commentary and Glossary, as well as a new Select Bibliography, help to bring the apparatus up to date and draw attention to the many fine contributions to the poem made by other scholars.
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The main narrative thread of the Old English poem <i>Exodus</i> is the Israelites’ departure from Egypt and the crossing of the Red Sea, but the most powerful unifying factor in the poem is its theme of salvation by faith and obedience. This critical edition presents the full text and commentary, with a substantial introduction, a glossary and select bibliography. <i>Third edition</i>.
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