11 Matching Annotations
- Oct 2018
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anglosaxonpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu anglosaxonpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu
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you know so fully in your memory all the individual deeds of the Trojans done through battle
Great respect for Jewish historical knowledge and writing. Thinking of Josephus here?
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- Sep 2018
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anglosaxonpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu anglosaxonpoetry.camden.rutgers.edu
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most wretched of sorrows to the Jews, men accursed, most despised of fates, for they could not turn it away for the world
anti-Jewish
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Judas lofted up a word, revealing his courage, and he spoke in Hebrew:
Judas's prayer in Hebrew. Invokes Scripture: creation, fall of angels
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he was named Judas by his kinsmen— him they gave unto the queen,
Quick to turn over Judas!
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than
imagery: stiff, stony
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Stephen
Stephen is Judas's brother Family set apart from other Jews How OLD is Judas??
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How
Explanation of majority choice; Sachius demurred
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Judas
Judas already knows what they've done wrong—and remains obstinate because admitting will mark the end of Jewish power
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We do not readily know so far why you are severely wrathful with us, lady. We know not what sin that we have performed in this folk-share, nor any great evil we have made against you.”
Read sympathetically?
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you had opposed the Righteous One, rejecting the Radiant Shaper of us all, the Lord of Lords, and persisting in error
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wisdom
Condemns Jews generally here & following
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