u/McAeschylus

I'm reading Aelfric's summary of the Old Testament and a few times he has mentioned that he has translated certain books into English that don't seem to be included in the extant corpus. He mentions that he also awende on Englisc: Judith, Esther, Maccabees 1 & 2, and Job.

Does anyone know if these are lost translations, or do they refer to the homilies he did on these five books?

I think Job and Esther probably do refer to homilies. Just based on how he phrases his description as sceortlice "short" which I read as "summarized or abridged" for Esther, and sumne cwide for Job, which I read as literally "some saying" which sounds like it could mean a sermon?

Am I understanding this right?

I couldn't find anything online with the new AI/SEO swamped version of Google.

I was about to make myself a table for a reading project I am planning, but figured I'd check if it already existed out there in the internets before I did.