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Water and fire : The myth of the flood in Anglo-Saxon England /
"The story of Noah's Flood is one of the Bible's most popular stories, and flood myths are preserved by cultures across the world. This book presents the first comprehensive study of the incorporation of the Flood myth into the Anglo-Saxon imagination, ranging from the works of Bede t...
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Myth ; The Bible and myth ; The classical tradition ; Early Germanic tradition ; Replacing myths
- 'You see the water, you see the wood' : the Bible and the fathers. The Old Testament ; The New Testament ; Patristic interpretation
- A manifold mystery : Bede on the Flood. Audience ; Bede and the Flood ; Ark and Church ; Flood and baptism ; The Flood in history ; Flood and apocalypse ; Noah and Christ ; Noah the preacher ; The Flood and the foolish giants
- Learning the lesson of the Flood. Niall and Noah ; The Annals of St-Bertin ; Alcuin and the Vikings ; Alfred and the Flood ; AElfric and the Flood ; Before the Flood : Noah and his generation ; The Flood in history ; The Church in the world ; Translation and commentary ; Eschatology
- Flood, covenant and apocalypse in Old English poetry. Genesis A ; Exodus ; Andreas ; The flooding of the city
- Planting Noah's seed. The genealogies ; Sceaf and Wessex ; Reactions
- Beowulf and the myth of the Flood. Creation to Flood ; Ancient work of giants ; Grendel's mere ; Grendel and the underworld ; Wulf's field ; The dragon ; Beowulf's death ; Beowulf and Andreas.