{"product_id":"undoing-babel-tristan-major-9781487500542","title":"Undoing Babel: The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Tower of Babel narrative is one of the most memorable accounts of the Bible, and its interpretative potential has produced a vast array of literary adaptations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eUndoing Babel\u003c\/i\u003e is the first extensive examination of the development of the Babel narrative amongst Anglo-Saxon authors from late antiquity to the eleventh century. Tristan Major's illuminating and original insight into Anglo-Latin and Old English works, including the writings of Aldhelm, Bede, Alcuin,  lfric, and Wulfstan, reveals the cultural ideologies and anxieties that transformed the Babel narrative. In doing so, Major argues that these Babel narratives provide a basis for understanding the world's ethnic and linguistic diversity as well as a theological stimulus to evangelize non-Christian and non-European people. \u003ci\u003eUndoing Babel \u003c\/i\u003ehighlights \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe depth of literary innovation in this period and disproves any notion of a single Anglo-Saxon reception of biblical sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tristan Major\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487500548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487500542\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.00d","brand":"Tristan Major","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013949501695,"sku":"9781487500542","price":82.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_926c7255-0171-4f12-b0b8-8ca782f83a05.jpg?v=1767745782","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/undoing-babel-tristan-major-9781487500542","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}