The Text of Handel's Messiah: A Time Capsule of Early-Modern Textual Criticism
Author:   Marybeth Hauffe
Publisher:   Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
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9783374076208


Pages:   258
Publication Date:   31 October 2025
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The Text of Handel's Messiah: A Time Capsule of Early-Modern Textual Criticism


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Is Handel's Messiah anti-Judaistic? The question has been coursing through the academic world for some time now. This book shows the oratorio's text to be more often than not in agreement with traditional Jewish translation and commentary. Moreover, its divergences from ascribed King-James-Version and Book-of-Common-Prayer texts, in preference for those sourced by the Codex Alexandrinus and Peshitta, evidence not only librettist Charles Jennens' philological prowess, but also the oratorio itself as an example of eighteenth-century English scholarship at its very best.

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Author:   Marybeth Hauffe
Publisher:   Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Imprint:   Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Weight:   0.594kg
ISBN:  

9783374076208


ISBN 10:   3374076203
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   31 October 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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