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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      May 2012
      April 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139050555
      9780521860062
      9781108703840
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521860062
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.82kg, 1068 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.14kg, 1068 Pages
      • Collection:
      Cambridge Histories - Religion
      Subjects:
      Biblical Studies - New Testament, History, Regional History Before 1500, Religion
      Series:
      New Cambridge History of the Bible
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    Collection:
    Cambridge Histories - Religion
    Subjects:
    Biblical Studies - New Testament, History, Regional History Before 1500, Religion
    Series:
    New Cambridge History of the Bible
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    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.

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    'The volume is carefully edited and contains very few typos or other forms of sloppiness. This is what one would expect from a Cambridge History of … but it does not mean that this fact should remain unmentioned: in a publication of this size and scope, such care and precision are remarkable and worthy of note. All of this makes for an impressive book of the highest standards that can only be applauded and recommended.'

    R. Ceulemans Source: Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses

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