The New Cambridge History of the Bible: Volume 2, From 600 to 1450 New Cambridge History of the Bible Series

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 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 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.

Part I. Texts and Versions: 1. The Hebrew Bible Judith Olszowy-Schlanger; 2. The Greek Christian Bible Barbara Crostini; 3. Jewish Greek Bible versions Nicholas de Lange; 4. The Bible in Latin c.600 to c.900 Pierre-Maurice Bogaert; 5. The Bible in Latin c.900 to Trent Frans van Liere; 6. The Bible in Ethiopic Ephraim Isaac; 7. The Bible in Arabic Sidney H. Griffith; 8. The Bible in Armenian S. Peter Cowe; 9. The Bible in Georgian Jeff W. Childers; 10. The Bible in Slavonic Henry Cooper; 11. The Bible in Germanic Andrew Colin Gow; 12. The Bible in English Richard Marsden; 13. The Bible in the languages of Scandinavia Bodil Ejrnæs; 14. The Bible in French Clive R. Sneddon; 15. The Bible in Italian Lino Leonardi; 16. The Bible in Spanish Gemma Avenoza; Part II. Format and Transmission: 17. The Bibles of the Christian East Georgi R. Parpulov; 18. Carolingian Bibles David Ganz; 19. The Latin gospelbook c.600–1200 Dorothy Shepard; 20. The glossed Bible Lesley Smith; 21. The thirteenth-century Bible: Paris and beyond Laura Light; 22. Romanesque display Bibles Dorothy Shepard; 23. Latin and vernacular apocalypses Nigel Morgan; 24. The Latin Psalter Theresa Gross-Diaz; 25. Illustration in Biblical manuscripts: East and West John Lowden; Part III. The Bible Interpreted: 26. Byzantine Orthodox exegesis Tia M. Kolbaba; 27. The Patristic legacy: exegesis to c.1000 John J. Contreni; 28. The early schools, c.900–1100 Guy Lobrichon; 29. The Bible in Medieval universities William J. Courtenay; 30. Scripture and reform Mary Dove; 31. Jewish Biblical exegesis from its beginnings to the twelfth century Robert A. Harris; 32. The Bible in Jewish-Christian dialogue Anna Sapir Abulafia; 33. The Bible in Muslim-Christian encounters David Waines; Part IV. The Bible in Use: 34. The Bible in the Medieval liturgy, c.600–1300 Joseph Dyer; 35. The use of the Bible in preaching Siegfried Wenzel; 36. The Bible in the spiritual literature of the Medieval West E. Ann Matter; 37. Literacy and the Bible Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner; 38. The Bible and canon law Gerald Bray; 39. The Qur'an and the Bible Angelika Neuwirth; Part V. The Bible Transformed: 40. The Bible in public art 600–1050 John Mitchell; 41. The Bible in public art 1050–1450 C. M. Kauffmann; 42. Icons of the Eastern Church Robin Cormack; 43. Medieval verse paraphrases of the Bible Evelyn Birge Vitz; 44. Staging the Bible Lynette R. Muir.

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 Ælfric'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).