''Christ III'' is an anonymous
Old English religious poem which forms the last part of ''
Christ
Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label= Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religi ...
'', a poetic triad found at the beginning of the
Exeter Book. ''Christ III'' is found on fols. 20b–32a and constitutes lines 867–1664 of ''Christ'' in
Krapp Krapp is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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and
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's ''
Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records'' edition. The poem is concerned with the
Second Coming
The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is a Christian (as well as Islamic and Baha'i) belief that Jesus will return again after his ascension to heaven about two thousand years ago. The idea is based on messi ...
of Christ (''parousia'') and the
Last Judgment
The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday, Day of Resurrection or The Day of the Lord (; ar, یوم القيامة, translit=Yawm al-Qiyāmah or ar, یوم الدین, translit=Yawm ad-Dīn, ...
.
Sample
This passage, about fire engulfing the world at Judgement Day, gives a modern English translation of Christ III, lines 993–1013 (in the line-numbering of the
Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records):
Other Old English eschatological poems
*
Blickling Homily nos. 7 and 10
*''Judgement Day I''
*''Judgement Day II''
Editions and translations
*Krapp, George Philip, and Dobbie, E. V. K. (eds.) (1936) ''The Exeter Book''.
The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records 3.) New York: Columbia U. P.
*Bradley, S. A. J. (tr.) (1982) ''Anglo-Saxon Poetry: an anthology of Old English poems in prose translation''. London: Dent
References
External links
Apocalyptic Ideas in Old English LiteratureA Modern English translation(
PDF), by Charles W. Kennedy. From
In Parentheses.
Old English poems
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