Bede: On the Temple: 21 (Translated Texts for Historians, 21) - Softcover

Bede

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0853230498 ISBN 13: 9780853230496

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Bede’s aim in De Templo is stated in Chapter I: ‘That the building of the tabernacle and the temple signifies one and the same Church of Christ’. For anyone with an interest in mysticism or merely desiring spiritual nourishment, the reading of De Templo should prove a sublime experience and its own reward. This classic in Latin by an English saint is here made available in English for the first time since it was written nearly 1300 years ago.

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Review

"Both Connelly's translation of this difficult text and O'Reilly's wide-ranging discussion of the work will be welcome to all who work in the literature and history of the early Middle Ages."--The Medieval Review

Synopsis

Bede states in the first chapter of this work ("De Templo") that the building of the tabernacle and the temple signifies one and the same Church of Christ. Yet this allegorical exposition of the building of the Temple, a paradigm of the genre, is relevant not only to biblical exegetes but to readers of diverse interests, including iconographers, and those concerned with mysticism or merely desiring spiritual nourishment. Even to those primarily interested in Bede's "Historia Ecclesiastica", it affords an understanding of that work, for its ideas are there given flesh and blood - the two books, as it were, forming a diptych.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853230498
• ISBN 13: 9780853230496
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192