An Old Norse Biblical Compilation: Studies in Stjorn by Astas, Reidar

An Old Norse Biblical Compilation: Studies in Stjorn (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820415857)

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An Old Norse Biblical Compilation: Studies in Stjorn by Astas, Reidar

An Old Norse Biblical Compilation: Studies in Stjorn

$58.95
An Old Norse Biblical Compilation: Studies in Stjorn by Astas, Reidar

An Old Norse Biblical Compilation: Studies in Stjorn

$58.95
Format: Hardcover
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One of the great achievements in the field of religious letters and literature of medieval Scandinavia was the appearance of Bible translations. The present study examines the origin and the sources of a West-Scandinavian translation of great parts of Genesis and Exodus from the first decades of the fourteenth century. It sheds light upon how the sources were drawn on and how scholastic theology may have influenced the work, and thus it offers new insights into the process of transmitting the Biblical message into European vernaculars.

Author: Reider Astas
ISBN-10: 0820415855
ISBN-13: 9780820415857
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1992
Pages: 251
Format: Hardcover
By Reider Astas
By Reider Astas
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The Author: Reidar Astas teaches religion at Eik College of Education, Tonsberg/Norway, and has been connected with this college for 30 years. He received his Doctorate of Philosophy (dr. philos.) in Scandinavian letters and literature from the University of Oslo. He also holds the degree of Cand. Theol. from The Free Faculty of Theology, Oslo, and a major degree in Norwegian from the University of Bergen, where he worked as an assistant to the late professor Ludvig Holm-Olsen. He has written books and articles on medieval literature as well as books for advanced studies in the field of religion.

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