Directory of Biblical Poems Resources

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This category contains Old English poems based on books of the Old Testament.

Subcategories

• Psalms

Resources in This Category

• Azarias

  http://catterall.net/OE/texts/a3.3.html
  Old English text, based on the Book of Daniel.

• Daniel

  http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/relg/historygeography/CodexJunius11/chap50.html
  Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.

• Exodus

  http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/relg/historygeography/CodexJunius11/chap42.html
  Modern English translation by Charles W. Kennedy.

• Genesis

  http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/relg/historygeography/CodexJunius11/chap1.html
  Modern English translation of the Genesis A and B poems by Charles W. Kennedy.

• Genesis

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15612
  Modern English translation of the Genesis A poem by Lawrence Mason. Project Gutenberg e-book.

• Genesis: the Fall of Adam and Eve

  http://www.oldenglishaerobics.net/fall.html
  Old English text. Each word is linked to a definition of the word.

• Genesis: the Story of Isaac

  http://people.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEReader/Isaacfram.html
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Judith

  http://www.elfinspell.com/JudithTitle.html
  Modern English translation by Albert S. Cook. Includes introduction and manuscript image.

• Judith

  http://people.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/OEReader/Judfram.htm
  Old English text with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Judith

  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31172/31172-h/31172-h.htm#c39
  Modern English translation by Stith Thompson and Cosette Faust.

• Raising Cain in Genesis and Beowulf: Challenges to Generic Boundaries in Anglo-Saxon Biblical Literature

  http://www.heroicage.org/issues/13/estes.php
  Argues that the distinction between heroic poems like Beowulf and Biblical poems like Genesis is artificial. Heroic poems incorporate Biblical elements, and vice versa. By Heide Estes.

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