11 Germanic

Updated by: 
Oz Tamir
Research notes: 
OT/not checked/27/01/2021
Reference type: 
Book section
Author(s): 
Murdoch, Brian
year: 
2019
Full title: 

11 Germanic

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
Editor(s): 
Alexander Kulik
Gabriele Boccaccini
Lorenzo DiTommaso
David Hamidovic
Michael E. Stone
Place of Publication: 
Oxford
Publisher: 
Oxford University Press
Pages: 
237-251
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

There are only limited and indirect reflections of Jewish apocrypha and pseudepigrapha in Old and Middle High German, Anglo-Saxon, and Middle English. The story of Judith was well-known, as were extrabiblical tales associated with Joseph, but the best attested pseudepigraphic material is that linked with (Christian versions of) the legends of Adam and Eve after the Fall, of which there are very many examples in Middle English and Middle High German, as well as in other European languages. Elements of the Enoch-apocrypha are reflected in one Old High German text, and the figures of Jannes and Jambre appear in one text in Anglo-Saxon.

URL: 
https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190863074.001.0001/oso-9780190863074-chapter-12
Label: 
08/02/2021
Record number: 
107 415