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Robert B. Burlin.
The Old English Advent: A Typological Commentary.
Published New Haven: Yale U.P., 1968.
Series: Yale Studies in English, vol. 168.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Vail-Ballou Press, Binghampton.
Size: 160x239x22mm.
Page count: xv,202pp.
Main language: English; the Old English text is given with a facing modern English translation.
Overall condition fair: this copy has no dustjacket; some scuffs on the boards, a bit of wear on the edges and corners, the type on the spine rather rubbed; looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £14.50
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Weight without packaging: 574g.

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Discusses the Exeter Book poem more usually known as Christ I.

Contents: The typological imagination — scriptural typology — literary typology; The Advent sequence; Commentary [includes the Old English text with a facing translation]; Recapitulation.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 5pp
Indexes: Biblical references; Patristic citations; General.

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See also | Old English literature |
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