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Bede: On First Samuel (Hardcover)
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Bede: On First Samuel (Hardcover)
Series: Translated Texts for Historians, 70
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The Old Testament book 1 Samuel (known as 1 Kings in modern Bibles)
contains one of the most dramatic stories in the Old Testament,
with its tense narrative about Israel's first attempts to govern
itself by kingship, and a cast of famous characters who drive the
story - the priest and prophet Samuel, the tragic figure of King
Saul, and chiefly David himself, the youngest son of Jesse, who
slays the Philistine's champion, Goliath, and gains God's favour in
replacement for Saul. The Venerable Bede (672-735 AD), Anglo-Saxon
England's foremost interpreter of the Bible, wrote many
commentaries on the Old Testament, but his treatment of 1 Samuel
stands out in particular: it is one of his longest commentaries,
one of his first sustained attempts to deal with the Old Testament
without support from an earlier commentary, and one of the few
commentaries he wrote that can be dated precisely. Bede sets out to
read the story of 1 Samuel as full of details which demonstrate the
prophetic nature of Old Testament history, an attempt that is
boldly experimental in its application of the allegorical method of
interpretation. Historically, the commentary is of special interest
for its detailed reference to the departure of Abbot Ceolfrith from
Wearmouth-Jarrow in June 716 AD, which has allowed scholarship to
firmly date the work and explore some potential links to the
turbulent political scene in Northumbria that marked that decade.
This English translation is the first rendering of the Latin into
another language. The translation is preceded by a substantial
introduction that places the work in the context of Bede's oeuvre,
discusses his sources and exegetical methods, and offers a reading
of the work's contemporary context in the light of current
scholarly debate.
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