The new Cambridge history of the Bible.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marsden, Richard, editor.

Matter, E. Ann, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--History.

Bible.

History.

Bible--Use--History.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012-

Summary:

"This volume examines the development and use of the Bible from late Antiquity to the Reformation, tracing both its geographical and its intellectual journeys from its homelands throughout the Middle East and Mediterranean and into northern Europe. Richard Marsden and 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 inter-religious dialogue. Translations into Ethiopic, Slavic, Armenian and Georgian vernaculars, as well as Romance and Germanic, are treated in detail, along with the theme of allegorized spirituality and established forms of glossing. The chapters take the study of Bible history beyond the cloisters of medieval monasteries and ecclesiastical schools to consider the influence of biblical texts on vernacular poetry, prose, drama, law and the visual arts of East and West"-- Volume 2, book cover.

Contents:

Volume 1. From the beginnings to 600 / edited by James Carleton Paget and Joachim Schaper

v.2. From 600 to 1450 / edited by Richard Marsden and E. Ann Matter

v.3. From 1450 to 1750 / edited by Euan Cameron

v.4. From 1750 to the present / edited by John Riches.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on: volume 2, published 2012.

ISBN:

9780521859387

0521859387

9780521860062

0521860067

OCLC:

774213683