Bede: A Biblical Miscellany

by Liverpool University Press

Overview

This volume contains six of Bede's shorter biblical writings, most of which appear here in translation for the first time - On Tobias, On the Resting Places, Thirty Questions on the Book of Kings, On Eight Questions, On the Holy Places and the letter On What Isaiah Says. Taken together, they reveal his amazing versatility as a biblical exegete.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780853236832
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Publication date:	01/02/1999
Series:	Translated Texts for Historians LUP , #28
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

W. Trent Foley is Professor of Religion at Davidson College. He is the author of Images of Sanctity in Eddius Stephanus' "Life of Bishop Wilfrid." Arthur G. Holder is Professor of Christian Spirituality and Dean of Academic Affairs at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, part of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. His translation of Bede's commentary On the Tabernacle is also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press in the Translated Texts for Historians series.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preface (Sr. Benedicta Ward)
Introduction (W. Trent Foley)
On the Holy Places (W. Trent Foley)
Introduction
Translation with Notes
On the Resting-Places (Arthur G. Holder)
Introduction
Translation with Notes
On What Isaiah Says (Arthur G. Holder)
Introduction
Translation with Notes On Tobias (W. Trent Foley)
Introduction
Translation with Notes
Thirty Questions on the Book of Kings (W. Trent Foley)
Introduction
Translation with Notes
Appendices
On Eight Questions (Arthur G. Holder)
Introduction
Translation with Notes
Select Bibliography
Index of Biblical Quotations and Allusions
Index of Patristic and Classical Sources