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9780195097207

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

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    9780195097207

  • ISBN10:

    0195097203

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-01-19
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

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 familiartexts--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 English on The Heliand, this study offers a new socio-political explanation of the possible motives of the unknownauthor in undertaking this enormous and brilliantly realized poetic task.

Author Biography


G. Ronald Murphy, S.J., is translator of The Heliand (Oxford, 1992) and author of Brecht and the Bible. He is Associate Professor of German at Georgetown University.

Table of Contents

A German Christ?
3(8)
Jesus is Drohtin
11(22)
Birth and Doom
33(24)
Peter's Longboat
57(18)
The Lord of the Runes
75(20)
The Final Battle: Captivam duxit captivitatem
95(24)
Afterword 119(4)
Select Bibliography 123

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