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The Wessex Gospels (also known as the West-Saxon Gospels) are a translation of the four gospels of the Christian Bible into a West Saxon dialect of Old English.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 8 relations: Ælfric of Eynsham, Benjamin Thorpe, Bible, England, Gospel, Lord's Prayer, Old English, West Saxon dialect.

  2. 10th-century books
  3. Wessex

Ælfric of Eynsham

Ælfric of Eynsham (Ælfrīc; Alfricus, Elphricus) was an English abbot and a student of Æthelwold of Winchester, and a consummate, prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies, biblical commentaries, and other genres.

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Benjamin Thorpe

Benjamin Thorpe (1782 – 19 July 1870) was an English scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Gospel

Gospel (εὐαγγέλιον; evangelium) originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was reported.

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Lord's Prayer

The Lord's Prayer, also known by its incipit Our Father (Pater Noster), is a central Christian prayer that Jesus taught as the way to pray.

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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West Saxon dialect

West Saxon is the term applied to the two different dialects Early West Saxon and Late West Saxon with West Saxon being one of the four distinct regional dialects of Old English. Wessex Gospels and West Saxon dialect are Wessex.

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See also

10th-century books

Wessex

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wessex_Gospels

Also known as Wessex Gospel, West Saxon Gospels, West-Saxon Gospel, West-Saxon Gospels.