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: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brepols
2007
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Apocrypha
Year: 2007, Volume: 18, Pages: 231-246 |
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| 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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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Apocrypha
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.APOCRA.2.305755 |