Undoing Babel: The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Tristan Major, "Undoing Babel: The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature "
English | ISBN: 1487500548 | 2018 | 312 pages | AZW3 | 649 KB
English | ISBN: 1487500548 | 2018 | 312 pages | AZW3 | 649 KB
The 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.
Undoing Babel 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, Ælfric, 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.
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