Some Early Medieval Commentaries on the Old Testament

It is a commonplace that the Biblical commentators of the earlier Middle Ages were traditionalists who copied or adapted the Fathers and rarely added much of their own. At the same time there was much variation in method; for there is a world of difference between the commentaries of Bede or Paschas...

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Main Author: Laistner, M. L. W. (Author)
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1953
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 1953, Volume: 46, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-46
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