Journal of English and Germanic philology, 2013-07, Vol.112 (3), p.292-310
2013
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- After the Apple: Repentance in Genesis B and its Continental Context
- Ist Teil von
- Journal of English and Germanic philology, 2013-07, Vol.112 (3), p.292-310
- Ort / Verlag
- Urbana: University of Illinois Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2013
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- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- A sincerely repentant Adam and Eve, if that is indeed what they are, must loom very large in any interpretation seeking to locate the Genesis B within or close to contemporary ecclesiastical circles. Accordingly, this article places the repentance scene at front and center. Sager argues that certain features that make it so different from the Biblical story of the Fall--a psychologizing discourse of contrition and repentance, but without corresponding penitential acts, and a conclusion lacking both the traditional confrontation of the sinners by God in the garden and their condemnation and expulsion--can best be understood if we read the Genesis B in a very practical sense as a penitential text, such as this term would have been understood in the ninth-century Carolingian empire.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0363-6941eISSN: 1945-662XDOI: 10.5406/jenglgermphil.112.3.0292Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_journals_1426253130
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- 400-1099 Old English period, 400-1499 Medieval period, Anglo-Saxon poetry, Authors and Anonymous Works, Bible, biblical poetry, Carolingian Empire, Criticism and interpretation, English Literature, Evangelienbuch(863-71), Genesis (Anglo-Saxon poem), Genesis (Old Saxon poem), Genesis B, German literature, Germanic literature, Historical text analysis, Latin language literature, Literary criticism, Miracula Sanctorum, Old English, Old English poetry, 450-1100, Otfrid(fl. 868), Penance in literature, Philology, Poetry, prose, Religion, Repentance, Repentance in literature, Rudolf von Fulda(d. 865), Sin, The Fall