Description:
1 Samuel (1 Kings in modern Bibles) tells the story of Samuel and the first kings of Israel, Saul and David, slayer of Goliath. Bede's commentary on it was one of his earliest attempts to expound the Old Testament without support from an earlier commentary and is boldly experimental. This volume offers the first English translation of his commentary.
Brief description: Scott DeGregorio is Professor of English and College-Wide Programs at the University of Michigan -Dearborn. His previous publications include: Cambridge Companion to Bede, ed. (2010); Innovation and Tradition in the Writings of the Venerable Bede, ed. (2006) and Bede: On Ezra and Nehemiah, in the Translated Texts for Historians series (2006).
Review Quotes:
'DeGregorio and Love have produced a valuable contribution to Bede studies and studies of early medieval religion more generally, making accessible and comprehensible a work that has much to say but which would otherwise invite too few readers.'
James T. Palmer, Speculum