Two Old English Apocrypha and Their Manuscript Source

The Gospel of Nichodemus and the Avenging of the Saviour
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-521-03354-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 323 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cross, J. E.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brearley, Denis

Crick, Julia

Hall, Thomas N.

Orchard, Andy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Apokryphen, Pseudepigraphen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of plates; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I. Discussion: 1. Introduction J. E. Cross; 2. The manuscript: Saint-Omer, Bibliothèque Municipale, 202 J. E. Cross and Julia Crick; 3. The Euangelium Nichodemi and Vindicta saluatoris in Anglo-Saxon England Thomas N. Hall; 4. Saint-Omer 202 as the manuscript source for the Old English texts J. E. Cross; 5. The style of the texts and the translation strategy Andy Orchard; Part II. Texts and Translations: 6. Editorial and translation procedure J. E. Cross, Denis Brearley and Andy Orchard; 7. Euangelium Nichodemi: Latin text and translation J. E. Cross, Denis Brearley and Andy Orchard; 8. Euangelium Nichodemi: Old English text and translation J. E. Cross, Denis Brearley and Andy Orchard; 9. Vindicta saluatoris: Latin text and translation J. E. Cross, Denis Brearley and Andy Orchard; 10. Vindicta saluatoris: Old English text and translation J. E. Cross, Denis Brearley and Andy Orchard; Bibliography Thomas N. Hall; Index.