Bede - (Translated Texts for Historians) (Paperback)

About the Book

Six shorter works by the Venerable Bede, most translated here for the first time, on biblical topics and reveals the significance of the "first historian of the English" as a biblical commentator.

Book Synopsis

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.

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.