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  1. The Old Testament in medieval Icelandic texts
    translation, exegesis and storytelling
    Author: Grønlie, Siân
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  D.S. Brewer, Cambridge

    The historical narratives of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible have much in common with Icelandic saga literature: both are invested in origins and genealogy, place-names, family history, sibling rivalry, conflict and its resolution. Yet the comparison... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
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    2024 A 4190
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    Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, Zentralbibliothek
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    Dg 109
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    Brechtbau-Bibliothek
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    EL 550.220
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    The historical narratives of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible have much in common with Icelandic saga literature: both are invested in origins and genealogy, place-names, family history, sibling rivalry, conflict and its resolution. Yet the comparison between these two literatures is rarely made, and biblical translations in Old Norse-Icelandic have been neglected as a focus of literary study. This book aims to redress this neglect. It shows how the likeness between biblical narrative and saga narrative has shaped the reception of the Old Testament in medieval Iceland, even through multiple layers of translation and exegesis. 0 It draws on a wide variety of texts, including homilies, saints' lives, world histories, encyclopaedic works, and the biblical translations collectively known as Stjórn, to explore how medieval Icelanders engaged with Old Testament narrative in the light of their own vernacular tradition of storytelling. And above all, it argues that the medieval Icelanders understood and recognised in these well-known biblical stories a narrative art that was strikingly akin to their own

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English; Old Norse
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781843847120
    Series: Studies in Old Norse literature ; [12]
    Subjects: Christianity and literature; Old Norse literature; Christianisme et littérature - Islande - Histoire; Littérature vieux norroise - Histoire et critique
    Scope: ix, 300 Seiten