Bede: On Ezra and Nehemiah
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
260 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2006
The Venerable Bede’s In Ezram et Neemiam is the first and only complete commentary written on the biblical books of Ezra and Nehemiah in the patristic or later medieval era. This is the first English translation of Bede’s text, and in it he emerges as a daring innovator, an author who used the stories of Ezra and Nehemiah to explore the pastoral and secular crises of his own day.
Translator Scott DeGregorio makes Bede's work both accessible to the layperson and illuminating for the specialist. This edition includes annotations dealing with textual, historical, and religious issues; a comprehensive introduction that places the text in the backdrop of Bede's eighth-century Northumbrian community; two appendices; and a bibliography.
Translator Scott DeGregorio makes Bede's work both accessible to the layperson and illuminating for the specialist. This edition includes annotations dealing with textual, historical, and religious issues; a comprehensive introduction that places the text in the backdrop of Bede's eighth-century Northumbrian community; two appendices; and a bibliography.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviation
Introduction
Ezra-Nehemiah: Contents and Versions
On Ezra and Nehemiah: Text and Sources
Bede's Approach to Ezra-Nehemiah
Audience and Date
Modern Editions and the Present Translation
On Ezra and Nehemiah
Prologue
Chapter Headings
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Appendix I: Notes on Textual Emendations
Appendix II: The Ezra Miniature
Bibliography
Index of Sources and Allusions
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