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Title The Saxon savior : the Germanic transformation of the Gospel in the ninth-century Heliand / G. Ronald Murphy, S.J.
Author Murphy, G. Ronald, 1938- author.
Publisher New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Copyright ©1989


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 In Library  24 hour  Level 3 High Demand  German C86 MUR  
 In Library  24 hour  Level 3 High Demand  German C86 MUR  

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Description xii, 129 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN 9780195060423 hardback
0195060423 hardback
9780195097207 paperback
0195097203 paperback
Note Originally published: 1989.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-129).
Contents A German Christ? -- Jesus is Drohtin -- Birth and doom -- Peter's longboat -- The lord of the Runes -- The final battle : captivam duxit captivitatem.
Note Chiefly in English; text of Heliand in Old Saxon, with English translation
Summary "This study is an interpretation and appreciation of the art of the Heliand, the 9th century Saxon epic poem in which the Christian Gospel of the four evangelists is reexpressed 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 Heliand author in undertaking this enormous and brilliantly realized poetic task"--Back cover.
Series Oxford paperbacks.
Library Class German C86
Subject Jesus Christ.
Heliand.
Old Saxon language -- Texts.
Theology -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Alt Title Saxon saviour

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