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The Saxon Savior: The Germanic Transformation of the Gospel in the Ninth-Century Heliand

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 | #1303065 in Books |  1995-01-19 |  1995-01-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.50 x.39 x8.25l,.40 | File type: PDF | 144 pages

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||20 of 20 people found the following review helpful.| Christ as a Saxon|By E. A. Kinzel|The Heliand is a 9th century retelling of the major events in the life of Christ in Old Saxon/Germanic alliterative verse, by an anonymous poet widely considered a master of the genre.

G. Ronald Murphy examines how the poet masterfully transformed the details of the Gospel to appeal to a mostly pagan Saxon audience who had but rece| ||"Happily fills a gap in the literature on The Heliand....The author has managed to make The Heliand more accessible to the English reader, to bring out the fascination of the work, the majesty of the alliterative verse, and the spiritual and

This study is an interpretation and appreciation of the art of he Heliand, the 9th century Saxon epic poem in which the Christian Gospel of the four evangelist is translated 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 Eng...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Saxon Savior: The Germanic Transformation of the Gospel in the Ninth-Century Heliand   |  G. Ronald Murphy. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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