Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: The Apocrypha. Edited by Frederick M. Biggs
This valuable handbook describes itself as a descendant of J. D. A. Ogilvy's Books Known to the English 597–1066 (1967), and it reflects an increase in interest in the influence of non-canonical texts on vernacular writing. By ‘apocrypha’ is meant, of course (as explained on p. 1), the often ps...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 1, Pages: 311-312 |
| Review of: | Sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture (Kalamazoo, Mich. : Medieval Institute Publications, 2007) (Murdoch, Brian)
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| Summary: | This valuable handbook describes itself as a descendant of J. D. A. Ogilvy's Books Known to the English 597–1066 (1967), and it reflects an increase in interest in the influence of non-canonical texts on vernacular writing. By ‘apocrypha’ is meant, of course (as explained on p. 1), the often pseudepigraphic texts of the kind contained principally in the second volume of R. H. Charles's Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament of 1913 (which curiously seems not to be mentioned, though some of its texts are preferable to those in more recent collections), or the New Testament apocrypha collected by M. R. James and others. The work, though claimed (p. xi) as an interim report only, is both full and up to date in respect of primary and secondary literature. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fln167 |