Literary Developments of the Table of Nations and the Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon England

This dissertation examines the various ways Anglo-Saxon authors interpreted and adapted Genesis 10–11: the Table of Nations and the Tower of Babel narrative. Although Genesis 10–11 offered Christians of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages a scripturally authorized understanding of the origins of ethn...

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Main Author: Major, Tristan Gary
Other Authors: Orchard, Andy
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/26294