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- Title
Connecting the Patriarchs: Noah and Abraham in the Old English Exodus.
- Authors
Anlezark, Daniel
- Abstract
Focuses on the narration of Patriarchs Noah and Abraham in the Old English poem "Exodus." Correlation of the nature of the poem to the Easter liturgy; Division of the poet's account of Noah and the Flood; Possibility of a relationship between "Exodus" and the book of Wisdom according to author Edward B. Irving, Jr.; Awareness of the Exodus-poet of the liturgical use of the Biblical narratives of the Flood and the Sacrifice of Isaac.
- Subjects
PATRIARCHS (Bible); EXODUS (Anglo-Saxon poem); EASTERTIDE (Liturgy); FLOODS; WISDOM (Biblical personification); IRVING, Edward B.; ISAAC (Biblical patriarch) -- Sacrifice
- Publication
Journal of English & Germanic Philology, 2005, Vol 104, Issue 2, p171
- ISSN
0363-6941
- Publication type
Article