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Bede

Bede: On Genesis

Translated with an Introduction by Calvin B. Kendall
256 pages,  5-3/4 x 8-1/4 
Series: Liverpool University Press - Translated Texts for Historians

Paper $29.95

ISBN: 9781846310881   Published May 2008
For sale in North America only

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
 
Introduction
 Bede's audience
 Bede's methodology: literal interpretation of the Bible and Noah's flood
 Bede's methodology: allegorical exegesis
 The thematic structure of On Genesis
 Jews and Saracens
 Bede's cosmology: the six days of creation
 Bede's religious thought
 The two versions of On Genesis
 Rethinking the date(s) of On Genesis
 Jones's edition of On Genesis and the present translation
 Catalogue of manuscripts and editions of On Genesis
 
On Genesis
 Preface
 Book One
 Book Two
 Book Three
 Book Four
 
Appendix 1: Plummer's argument for the year 720 defended
Appendix 2: Textual corrections and emendations
 
Bibliography
Index of sources and parallels
 
Subjects



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