The New Cambridge History of the Bible Volume 2, From 600 to 1450

1. The Hebrew Bible
2. The Greek Christian Bible
3. Jewish Greek Bible versions
4. The Latin Bible, c. 600 to c. 900
5. The Latin Bible, c. 900 to the Council of Trent, 1546
6. The Bible in Ethiopic
7. The Bible in Arabic
8. The Bible in Armenian
9. The Bible in Georgian
10. The Bible in Slavonic
11. The Bible in Germanic
12. The Bible in English
13. The Bible in the languages of Scandinavia
14. The Bible in French
15. The Bible in Italian
16. The Bible in Spanish and Catalan
17. The Bibles of the Christian East
18. Carolingian Bibles
19. The Latin gospelbook, c. 600–1200
20. The Glossed Bible
21. The thirteenth century and the Paris Bible
22. Romanesque display Bibles
23. Latin and vernacular Apocalypses
24. The Latin psalter
25. Illustration in biblical manuscripts
26. Byzantine Orthodox exegesis
27. The patristic legacy to c. 1000
28. The early schools, c. 900–1100
29. The Bible in medieval universities
30. Scripture and reform
31. Jewish biblical exegesis from its beginnings to the twelfth century
32. The Bible in Jewish–Christian dialogue
33. The Bible in Muslim–Christian encounters
34. The Bible in the medieval liturgy, c. 600–1300
35. The use of the Bible in preaching
36. The Bible in the spiritual literature of the medieval West
37. · Literacy and the Bible
38. The Bible and canon law
39. The Quran and the Bible
40. The Bible in public art, 600–1050
41. The Bible in public art, 1050–1450
42. Icons of the eastern church
43. Medieval verse paraphrases of the Bible
44. Staging the Bible

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 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.