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Exodus is an exceptional Old English poem, written at a time when in the age of Bede Northern England held the intellectual leadership of Europe. It offers a vernacular gateway to the study of early medieval christian poetry. Focussing in dramatic fashion on the crossing of the Red Sea enabling the Israelites to escape captivity in Egypt the poem is stylistically outstanding, showing a use of metaphor and fusion of disparate concepts (such as abstract and concrete, literal and allegorical) unparalleled in Old English poetry. The exodus, the greatest of Old Testament events, is interpreted both within the historical perspective of other Old Testament events (the Deluge and the Offering of Isaac) and within the allegorical perspective of the exodus to the Promised Land seen as the christian's journey through life to the ultimate heavenly home.
This book, now in its third edition, aims to make the poem more accessible, and better understood and appreciated than hitherto. A number of changes to the Introduction, Commentary and Glossary, as well as a new Select Bibliography, help to bring the apparatus up to date and draw attention to the many fine contributions to the poem made by other scholars.
Contents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
I THE MANUSCRIPT
1. History, Provenance and Origin
2. General Description
3. Sectional Divisions
4. Lay-out and Lacunae
5. The Intended Illustrations
6. Punctuation
7. Scribal Error
8. Compilation
9. The Textual Integrity of Exodus
10. The Corrector's Accents
II LANGUAGE
III METRE
IV STYLE
V SOURCES
VI THEME
VII DATE AND ORIGIN
The Text
EDITORIAL PROCEDURE
EXODUS: Text with textual notes and Commentary
Select Bibliography
Glossary
Glossorial Index of People and Places
