Chapter
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Chapter 2 The Bible as Book
Pandects and Multivolume Bibles
Bibles for Liturgical Use
Glossed Psalters and Glossed Bibles
Early Medieval Centers of Bible Production
Bible Production in the Later Middle Ages
The Layout of the Bible Text
Paleography and Punctuation
The Bible in Medieval Libraries
From Written Codex to Printed Book
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Chapter 3 The Medieval Canon
The Contents of Medieval Bibles
The Old Testament Apocrypha
Canon and Authority in the Middle Ages
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Chapter 4 The Text of the Medieval Bible
Jerome’s First Bible Revision
“Common Editions” or Hebraica Veritas?
The Establishment of a Textus Receptus
Bible Reform in the Early Middle Ages
“Recensions” of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Medieval Textual Criticism
The Vulgate after the Reformation
Outside the Biblical Text
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Chapter 5 Medieval Hermeneutics
An Example of Allegorical Exegesis: Haimo on Jonah
The Multiple Senses of Scripture
Jewish Tradition: The Derash
The Letter as the Foundation
The Literal Sense and the Peshat Tradition
The Extended Literal Sense
The Double Literal Sense and the Unequivocal Sense of Scripture
Resources for Further Study
Chapter 6 The Commentary Tradition
The Antecedents: Patristic Biblical Interpretation
Digesting the Patristic Heritage
The Carolingian Commentators
Chronology and Biblical History
The School of Saint Victor and its Influence
Monastic Collationes in the Twelfth Century
The Schools in the Later Twelfth Century
The Universities in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Didactic Works of the Later Middle Ages
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Chapter 7 The Vernacular Bible
Vernacular Bibles of the Early Middle Ages
Bible Paraphrases in Old High German and Old English
Vernacular Translations and the Old English Bible
Vernacular Bibles between Heresy and Orthodoxy
Vernacular Translations in the Low Countries
Vernacular Bible and Church Authority
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Chapter 8 The Bible in Worship and Preaching
The Bible in Liturgy and Prayer
A Brief History of Sermons
Written Sources and the Spoken Word
Tools for the Medieval Preacher
Bestiaria, Lapidaria, and Exempla
The Bible in Medieval Sermons
Resources for Further Study
Chapter 9 The Bible of the Poor?
The Use and the Defense of Images
Illuminated Bibles as Visual Exegesis
Exegetical Picture Bibles
Picture Bibles as Didactic Art
Images and Devotional Practice in the Books of Hours
The Bible, Imagination, and Art
Resources for Further Study
Appendix A A Comparative Canon Chart
APPENDIX B Names for Biblical Books
Books of the Bible Known by Different Names
Names for Groups of Biblical Books (see also Appendix A)
Psalms in the Vulgate and Modern Bibles
Appendix C A Schematic Genealogy of Old Testament Translations
Index of Manuscripts Cited
Index of Biblical References