Brian Murdoch is Professor Emeritus of German in the School of Languages, Cultures and Religions at the University of Stirling. He taught in Glasgow University and at the University of Illinois in Chicago before coming to Stirling in 1972. He has been Hulsean Lecturer in Divinity at Cambridge and Speaker's Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Oxford, and gave the Waynflete Lectures at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has held Visiting Fellowships at Magdalen and Oriel in Oxford and Trinity Hall in Cambridge. He has published books, editions and articles on the Adam-literature as found in Latin, German, English, Irish, Breton and Cornish, as well as other studies of biblical material, especially on the popular Bible in European vernaculars. He has also written books on Old High German, on Cornish literature, on the Germanic heroic epic, and on modern literature concerned with the world wars.