Sedulius, The Paschal Song and Hymns

Sedulius, The Paschal Song and Hymns
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Publisher: SBL Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2013-06-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1589837444

This is the first complete English translation of the poetic works of Sedulius, a Christian Latin poet of late antiquity whose biblical epic and hymns were enormously popular during the Middle Ages and the early modern period. The introduction places the poet and his works into his historical and literary contexts, followed by the Latin text of Sedulius’s poetic works with English translation on facing pages. Notes on linguistic and historical matters are designed to help the reader with little or no Latin and only some familiarity with Sedulius’s classical and biblical sources. Appendices supply texts and translations of incidental related materials, including Sedulius’s dedicatory letters; biographical notices, subscriptions, and laudatory poems associated with Sedulius’s works in the manuscript tradition; and representative excerpts from Sedulius’s own prose paraphrase of the Paschale Carmen. The volume includes a bibliography and index.

Sedulius, The Paschal Song and Hymns

Sedulius, The Paschal Song and Hymns
Author:
Publisher: SBL Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781589837430

This is the first complete English translation of the poetic works of Sedulius, a Christian Latin poet of late antiquity whose biblical epic and hymns were enormously popular during the Middle Ages and the early modern period. The introduction places the poet and his works into his historical and literary contexts, followed by the Latin text of Sedulius’s poetic works with English translation on facing pages. Notes on linguistic and historical matters are designed to help the reader with little or no Latin and only some familiarity with Sedulius’s classical and biblical sources. Appendices supply texts and translations of incidental related materials, including Sedulius’s dedicatory letters; biographical notices, subscriptions, and laudatory poems associated with Sedulius’s works in the manuscript tradition; and representative excerpts from Sedulius’s own prose paraphrase of the Paschale Carmen. The volume includes a bibliography and index.

Sedulius's Gospel Sources in the Paschale Carmen and the Paschale Opus

Sedulius's Gospel Sources in the Paschale Carmen and the Paschale Opus
Author: Oliver W.E. Norris
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
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This study examines the Gospel citations in the Paschale Opus and the Paschale Carmen, the twin works of the 5 th-century Latin poet Sedulius. To date no study had conducted a full investigation of the origin and use of Sedulius's Gospel sources in both works, composed in the middle of a crucial period in the evolution of the Latin Bible. Sedulius's biblical citations were broken up into variant sites that were analysed against the principal traditions in the Old Latin and Vulgate versions of the Gospels. The full collection of these variant sites can be found in the Appendix. The analysis of these variant readings proposes that Sedulius's Gospel citations in both works are principally Old Latin, closest among unmixed Old Latin codices to the Veronensis (VL4) in Matthew, the Corbiensis II (VL8) in Luke and the Usserianus I in John (VL14), but his citations also reveal that Sedulius made significant use of the Vulgate, especially in book two of the Paschale Opus. Sedulius's biblical text reveals his use of homilies and the importance of the liturgy on the composition of his works but his biblical citations are nearly always paralleled by an Old Latin or Vulgate manuscript witness rather than those forms found in the earliest witnesses to the liturgy. Finally, the study's findings have important consequences for our knowledge concerning the use and dissemination of what came to be known as the Vulgate version of the Gospels.