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Two Old English Apocrypha and their Manuscript Source: The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour: 19 (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 19) - Softcover

 
9780521033541: Two Old English Apocrypha and their Manuscript Source: The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour: 19 (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 19)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521033543 ISBN 13: 9780521033541
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

In the course of this book Professor Cross presents the discovery of the actual manuscript source for the Old English versions of two biblical apocrypha, The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour. In collaboration with four other scholars, Professor Cross explores the implications of this discovery. Here, parallel editions of the relevant Latin and Old English texts are given, together with modern English translations, and detailed discussion outlines the background to the Latin texts, and to the manuscript which contains them. The assembled material provides an insight not simply into the transmission of two apocryphal texts, but also into the mind of the single Anglo-Saxon translator who, it is argued, struggled in his own idiosyncratic fashion to make two badly spelt and incomplete Latin originals his own.

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Book Description

Professor Cross, in collaboration with four other scholars, presents the manuscript source for the Old English versions of two biblical apocrypha, The Gospel of Nichodemus and The Avenging of the Saviour. Parallel editions of the relevant Latin and Old English texts are given, together with modern English translations.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521033543
ISBN 13 
9780521033541
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
324
Editor
Cross J. E.