The Bible in Medieval Germanic Literatures

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_43
dc.creator	Bampi Massimiliano
dc.creator	Buzzoni Marina
dc.creator	Khalaf Omar
dc.title	The Bible in Medieval Germanic Literatures
dc.type	Edited book
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	It is certainly a cliché to state that the Bible is the fundamental text of Western culture. The fact that it is a cliché, however, does not make the assertion any less true: throughout the medieval era, the biblical text is the indispensable foundation of socially accepted beliefs, it is a model of ethical behaviour, it is a repertoire of exemplary stories that allow us to assign meaning to historical events as well as to everyday life. The participation of the Germanic peoples in the construction of the European cultural system, from late antiquity to the modern age, is traversed and pervaded by the processes of translation, reworking and reuse of the books of the Old and New Testaments. The contributions collected in this volume offer interesting and often original contributions to the many areas of discussion on the biblical text, thus inserting the reflections of Italian Germanic philologists into the broader international debate and contributing significantly to its development and deepening.
dc.relation.ispartof	Medieval and Modern Philologies
dc.relation.ispartof	Serie occidentale
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/978-88-6969-021-1
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2015-05-27
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-021-1/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-945X
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9441
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-021-1
dc.identifier.eisbn
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
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Massimiliano Bampi

Marina Buzzoni Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

Omar Khalaf

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abstract

It is certainly a cliché to state that the Bible is the fundamental text of Western culture. The fact that it is a cliché, however, does not make the assertion any less true: throughout the medieval era, the biblical text is the indispensable foundation of socially accepted beliefs, it is a model of ethical behaviour, it is a repertoire of exemplary stories that allow us to assign meaning to historical events as well as to everyday life. The participation of the Germanic peoples in the construction of the European cultural system, from late antiquity to the modern age, is traversed and pervaded by the processes of translation, reworking and reuse of the books of the Old and New Testaments. The contributions collected in this volume offer interesting and often original contributions to the many areas of discussion on the biblical text, thus inserting the reflections of Italian Germanic philologists into the broader international debate and contributing significantly to its development and deepening.

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