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Rebecca Barnhouse and Benjamin C. Withers, eds.
The Old English Hexateuch: Aspects and Approaches.
Published Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University/Medieval Institute Publications, 2000.
Series: Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center.
ISBN 1580440509.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 151x228x25mm.
Page count: xv,358pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild scuffs on the covers, a little wear on the edges and corners; otherwise doesn’t look heavily used, the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £15.00
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Weight without packaging: 617g.

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Contents:
Menzer, Preface as admonition — Ælfric's preface to Genesis;
Marsden, Translation by committee? The 'anonymous' text of the OE Hexateuch;
Barnhouse, Shaping the text for an Anglo-Saxon audience;
Keefer, Assessing the liturgical canticles;
Richards, Fragmentary versions of Genesis in OE prose — context & function;
Johnson, Program of illumination in the OE illustrated Hexateuch — 'visual typology'?;
Karkov, The A-S Genesis — text, illustration & audience;
Wilcox, Laughter in Genesis & the OE tradition;
Graham, Early modern users of Claudius B. iv — Robert Talbot & William L'Isle;
Withers, Claudius B. iv, colonialism, & the history of A-S art in the mid-20th c.

Illustrations: 31, monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: 9
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Indexes: Manuscripts; General.

See also | Old English literature | Bible |
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