{"product_id":"old-testament-narratives-9780674053199","title":"Old Testament Narratives","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Old English poems in this volume are among the first retellings of scriptural texts in a European vernacular. More than simple translations, they recast the familiar plots in daringly imaginative ways, from Satan's seductive pride (anticipating Milton), to a sympathetic yet tragic Eve, to Moses as a headstrong Germanic warrior-king, to the lyrical nature poetry in Azarias.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether or not the legendary Caedmon authored any of the poems in this volume, they represent traditional verse in all its vigour. Three of them survive as sequential epics in a manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first, the Old English \u003cem\u003eGenesis\u003c\/em\u003e, recounts biblical history from creation and the apocryphal fall of the angels to the sacrifice of Isaac; Abraham emerges as the central figure struggling through exile toward a lasting covenant with God.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe second, \u003cem\u003eExodus\u003c\/em\u003e, follows Moses as he leads the Hebrew people out of Egyptian slavery and across the Red Sea. Both Abraham and Moses are transformed into martial heroes in the Anglo-Saxon mould.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe last in the triad, \u003cem\u003eDaniel\u003c\/em\u003e, tells of the trials of the Jewish people in Babylonian exile up through Belshazzar's feast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAzarias\u003c\/em\u003e, the final poem in this volume (found in an Exeter Cathedral manuscript), relates the apocryphal episode of the three youths in Nebuchadnezzar's furnace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47536864231660,"sku":"9780674053199","price":71.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674053199-old-testament-narratives.jpg?v=1776389484","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/old-testament-narratives-9780674053199","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}