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Bede: On Ezra and Nehemiah (Paperback)
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Bede: On Ezra and Nehemiah (Paperback)
Series: Translated Texts for Historians, 47
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The Venerable Bede's In Ezram et Neemiam is the first and only
complete commentary written on these biblical books in either the
patristic or later medieval era. This translation, the first
rendering of this commentary into any language, presents the work
in a format that will be accessible to the layman and illuminating
for the specialist. To this end, the volume contains a complete
translation of the Latin text; copious annotations dealing with
textual, historical, social, and religious issues; a lengthy
introduction that explains the texts and seeks to locate it against
the backdrop of Bede's eighth-century Northumbrian world; two
appendices; and a bibliography. As the Introduction argues, this
work of Bede's is an excellent example of the allegorical method of
biblical interpretation, which Bede inherited from the Fathers of
the Church and for which he himself is justly famed. At the same
time, Bede's decision to take up these particular biblical texts on
the events surrounding the reconstruction of the Temple in
Jerusalem after the return from exile in Babylon is itself fraught
with a deeper significance. both the individual and societal
levels, he was keen to appropriate them as a guide of sorts for
dealing with the pastoral and secular crises alive in his own day.
It follows that Bede, as a commentator on Scripture, was thus more
of an original mind than is often allowed, as his interpretation of
the Ezra-Nehemiah saga is drawn from the exigencies of his own
contemporary situation rather than from the stock and trade of past
tradition. By making this text available in English for the first
time, DeGregorio's translation seeks not only to make more of
Bede's exegetical corpus accessible to readers unable to confront
the text in its original Latin, but also to alter the conception of
Bede as a commentator from that of a slavish imitator to a daring
innovator. Ezra and Nehemiah are two books of the Old Testament of
the Bible, originally one work in the Hebrew canon. Written between
450 and 250 BC and named for two political and religious reformers
in the postexilic Jewish community, they relate aspects of Jewish
history from 538 BC to about 420 BC.
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