Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry

Name: Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Price: 164.75 AUD
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By: Joseph St. John

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Paperback | 26 December 2025 | Edition Number 1

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222 Pages

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22.9 x 15.2 x 1.19

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Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth in the Old Testament poems Genesis A and Genesis B, as well as in Beowulf, a secular heroic narrative.

The book explores how the Genesis poems resort to the Christian exegetical tradition and draw on secular social norms to deliver their biblically derived and related narratives in a manner relevant to their Christian Anglo-Saxon audiences. In this book it is suggested that these elements work in unison, and that the two Genesis poems function coherently in the context of the Junius 11 manuscript. Moreover, the book explores recourse to Genesis-derived myth in Beowulf, and points to important similarities between this text and the Genesis poems. It is therefore shown that while Beowulf differs from the Genesis poems in several respects, it belongs in a corpus where religious verse enjoys prominence.

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