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English
Abstract
The Psalms were a central aspect of Anglo-Saxon religious and biblical learning, and for this reason they have garnered much attention in recent scholarship. Yet the apocryphal, supernumerary Psalm 151 in particular would benefit from greater sustained attention. By focusing on this individual psalm, the present article situates the apocryphon within its intellectual, material, and literary contexts. In the first part of this essay, the surviving patristic and medieval evidence for learned attitudes toward the psalm in relation to the rest of the canonical Psalter are discussed, as well as the manuscript witnesses in AngloSaxon England. In the second part of this essay, focus is turned toward the two surviving Old English gloss translations of Psalm 151 in the Vespasian and Eadwine psalters. More specifically, it is suggested that the Vespasian gloss translation of Psalm 151 is yet another unidentified Old English poem.
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Hawk, B. W. (November 01, 2015). Psalm 151 in Anglo-Saxon England. The Review of English Studies, 66, 277, 805-821.
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Hawk, Brandon W., "Psalm 151 in Anglo-Saxon England" (2015). Faculty Publications. 419.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/facultypublications/419