Richard Marsden - The New Cambridge History of the Bible, Volume 2 : From 600 to 1450

This volume examines the development and use of the Bible from Late Antiquity to the Reformation, tracing its geographical and intellectual journeys from its Middle Eastern homelands to all parts of the Mediterranean and into northern Europe. Richard Marsden and E. Ann Matter's volume provides a balanced treatment of eastern and western biblical traditions, highlighting processes of transmission and modes of exegesis among Roman and Orthodox Christians, Jews and Muslims, and illuminating the role of the Bible in medieval interreligious dialogue. Translations into Ethiopic, Slavic, Armenian and Georgian vernaculars, as well as Romance and Germanic, are treated in detail, along with the theme of allegorised spirituality and the multifarious practice of glossing; and the chapters take the study of medieval Bible history beyond the concerns of the monastic cloister and ecclesiastical school to consider the influence of biblical texts on vernacular poetry, prose, drama, law and the visual arts of East and West.

RICHARD MARSDEN is Emeritus Professor of Old English at the University of Nottingham. His published works include The Text of the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon England (1995) and an edition of The Old English Heptateuch and lfric's Libellus de ueteri testamento et nouo (2008), along with other books and articles on scriptural translation and the Latin Bible.

E. ANN MATTER is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches and writes about medieval Christian culture, especially biblical interpretation and the history of spirituality. Her publications include The Voice of My Beloved: The Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity (1990).

The New Cambridge History of the Bible series comprises four volumes which take into account the considerable advances in scholarship made in almost all biblical disciplines during the previous forty years. The volumes respond to shifts in scholarly methods of study of the Old and New Testaments, look closely at specialised forms of interpretation and address the new concerns of the twenty-first century. Attention is paid to biblical studies in eastern Christian, Jewish and Islamic contexts, rendering the series of interest to students of all Abrahamic faiths. The entire New Cambridge History of the Bible offers a comprehensive account of the development of the Bible from its beginnings to the present day, but each volume can also be read independently, providing a substantial contribution to the scholarship of the period it covers. The New History will provide an invaluable resource for scholars, researchers and students alike.

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The New Cambridge History of The Bible

Volume 2

From 600 to 1450

Edited by

Richard Marsden

E. Ann Matter