Martin Fuss, Die religiose Lexik des Althochdeutschen und Altsachsischen.

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Publication Date: 22-MAR-02

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Martin Fuss, Die religiose Lexik des Althochdeutschen und Altsachsischen, Europaische Hochschulschriften 1765 (Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2000). 434 pp. ISBN 3-631-36780-5. Eur. 51.10/33.00 [pounds sterling].

Bettina Heinrich, Fruhmittelalterliche Bibeldichtung und die Bibel. Ein Vergleich zwischen den altenglischen, althochdeutschen und altsachsischen Bibelparaphrasen und ihren Vorlagen in der Vulgata, Europaische Hochschulschriften 1769 (Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2000). xii + 369 pp. ISBN 3-631-36310-9. Eur. 50.10/33.00 [pounds sterling].

In listing over 5,000 lemmata Martin Fuss aims at giving a systematic survey of the religious vocabulary of Old High German and Old Saxon. He organizes his entries by subject groups, proceeding from terms designating God, his properties and actions, through to the world of man (including biblical figures, the sacraments, religious observances, Christian ethics, ecclesiastical institutions), and finishing with cosmology. In this range the author has set himself an immense...

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