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Timothy Blaine Price

Luther's Heliand

Resurrection of the Old Saxon Epic in Leipzig

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The 2006 discovery of the Old Saxon Heliand manuscript fragment (MS L) in Leipzig is conspicuous. Besides its proximity to Wittenberg, the Leipzig University Library - site of the discovery - was first dedicated by Martin Luther in 1545. Given this relationship between the Reformer and the discovery location, it seems possible that the Reformer once had access to an original version of the Old Saxon Heliand, perhaps as an aid in his efforts to render Biblical Hebraisms into vernacular German idioms at a time of budding German nationalism. Indeed, long before the Old Saxon epic received the name by which it is currently known, rumors arose abo… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4331-1394-9
  • EAN: 9781433113949
  • Produktnummer: 16988679
  • Verlag: Peter Lang
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 332 S.
  • Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.2 cm 616 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 616

Über den Autor


Timothy Blaine Price received his PhD in Germanic linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as James R. Gray Lecturer of reading and composition and as a lecturer of German. He also served as an adjunct instructor of German at the College of Alameda. He is currently pursuing his Habilitation in Historical Comparative Linguistics as part of the LOEWE-funded Digital Humanities Project at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.

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