"In Tenga Bithnua" and the days of creation
The medieval Irish cosmological treatise In Tengua Bithnua, a work evidently based on a lost apocalypse, is structured as an exposition of the six days of creation. Source analysis indicates that this structure is a secondary feature of the text, and that the creatures and natural phenomena arranged...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brepols
2007
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| In: |
Apocrypha
Year: 2007, Volume: 18, Pages: 231-246 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Genesis
/ Reception
/ Ireland
/ History 600-800
B Ireland / Creation myth / History 600-800 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages KBF British Isles NBD Doctrine of Creation |
| Further subjects: | B
Creation
B Ireland B Apocrypha |
| Summary: | The medieval Irish cosmological treatise In Tengua Bithnua, a work evidently based on a lost apocalypse, is structured as an exposition of the six days of creation. Source analysis indicates that this structure is a secondary feature of the text, and that the creatures and natural phenomena arranged within it reflect the intellectual culture of the British Isles in the seventh and eighth centuries. |
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| ISSN: | 1155-3316 |
| Contains: | In: Apocrypha
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