Commentary on the Seven Catholic Epistles / / Bede the Venerable.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Venerable, Bede the,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Monastic Studies Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (279 p.)

Best known in the Middle Ages as a scriptural exegete, Bede here provides a running gloss on the Letters of James, Peter, John, and Jude. Why he chose these `lesser letters' for his first attempt at written exegesis no one knows; perhaps he did so because so few other scriptural commentators had glossed them. They are unique in that he inclined more to the literal interpretation of the text than he did in his more allegorical later commentaries. Preachers will find them useful; readers will find them illuminating.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- NOTES TO THE FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTES TO INTRODUCTION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- AUTHORS AND WORKS CITED -- FM2 -- PREFACE -- NOTES TO PREFACE -- COMMENTARY ON JAMES -- NOTES TO COMMENTARY ON JAMES -- COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER -- NOTES TO COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER -- COMMENTARY ON 2 PETER -- NOTES TO COMMENTARY ON 2 PETER -- COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN -- NOTES TO COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN -- COMMENTARY ON 2 JOHN -- COMMENTARY ON 3 JOHN -- NOTES TO COMMENTARY ON 3 JOHN -- COMMENTARY ON JUDE -- NOTES TO COMMENTARY TO JUDE