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Article: Ostern. Geschichte eines Wortes.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Ostern. Geschichte eines Wortes. By JURGEN UDOLPH. (Indogermanische Bibliothek, Dritte Reihe: Untersuchungen, 20) Heidelberg: Winter. 1999. 125 pp. DM 28.
The aim that Jurgen Udolph sets himself in this short book is to provide a new explanation of the much contested word for the main Christian festival: English 'Easter', German 'Ostern' (all the other Germanic languages use the loan-word pascha). Rejecting earlier explanations (such as Bede's reference to a pagan goddess Eostra or J. Knobloch's unconvincing view of a mistaken loan-translation from Latin albae), Udolph connects his word instead with the central position of baptism in the Easter ceremony and with the ...
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