Commentary Series
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TEAMS Commentary Series
The Commentary Series is designed for classroom use. Its goal is to make available to teachers and students useful examples of the vast tradition of medieval commentary on sacred scripture. The series includes English translations of works written in a number of medieval languages and from various centuries and religious traditions. The series focuses on treatises which have relevance to the many fields of Medieval Studies, including theories of allegory and literature, history of art, music, spirituality, and political thought. The editions include short introductions which set the context and suggest the importance of each work.
The Glossa Ordinaria on Romans
translated with an introduction and notes by Michael Scott Woodward
The Gloss on Romans is a collection of sources from many periods and places, which accounts for [its] inconsistencies.
Copyright 2011, pp. xxii + 248
ISBN 978-1-58044-109-4 (paperback) $18.00
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The Seven Seals of the Apocalypse: Medieval Texts in Translation
translated with an introduction and notes by Francis X. Gumerlock
This book illustrates this vastness of medieval interpretive tradition on the seven seals. It includes fifteen texts from the sixth through the fifteenth centuries.
Copyright 2009, pp. xii + 98
ISBN 978-1-58044-108-7 (paperback) $11.00
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The Glossa Ordinaria on the Song of Songs
translated with an introduction and notes by Mary Dove
In this translation of glosses on the Song of Songs, Mary Dove offers a readily accessible and inexpensive resource for students and scholars.
Copyright 2004, pp. xxxii + 186
ISBN 1-58044-084-3 (paperback) $13.00
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On the Truth of Holy Scripture
John Wyclif
translated with an introduction and notes by Ian Christopher Levy
“Levy’s edition will greatly enable student access (the mandate of TEAMS), which will in turn, one hopes, engender more accurate assessments of his [Wyclif’s] work.”
Copyright 2001, pp. x + 368
ISBN 1-58044-031-2 (paperback) $13.00
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Second Thessalonians: Two Early Medieval Apocalyptic Commentaries
introduced and translated by Steven R. Cartwright and Kevin L. Hughes
Apocalyptic speculation, in one form or another, is as persistent at the turn of this millennium as it was at the last. The commentaries of Haimo of Auxerre and Thietland of Einsiedeln offer glimpses of two links in [the] unbroken chain of the apocalyptic tradition.
Copyright 2001, pp. vi + 86
ISBN 1-58044-018-5 (paperback) $8.00
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Commentary on the Song of Songs and Other Kabbalistic Commentaries: Rabbi Ezra ben Solomon of Gerona
selected, translated, and annotated by Seth Brody
The commentary of Rabbi Ezra ben Solomon of Gerona (d. ca. 1245) on the Song of Songs is one of the most important texts of the first clearly identified circle of Kabbalists, those operating in the Catalonian town of Gerona at the middle of the thirteenth century.
Copyright 1999, pp. x + 233
ISBN 1-58044-000-2 (paperback) $10.00
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Nicholas of Lyra’s Apocalypse Commentary
translated with an introduction and notes by Philip D. W. Krey
Surveys of the history of biblical exegesis and, in particular, the history of Apocalypse commentaries rarely fail to allude to Nicholas of Lyra O.F.M. (1270–1349) as the greatest biblical exegete of the fourteenth century.
Copyright 1997, pp. xii + 238
ISBN 1-879288-78-8 (paperback) $10.00
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Medieval Exegesis in Translation: Commentaries on the Book of Ruth
translated with an introduction and notes by Lesley Smith
This book brings together and translates from the medieval Latin a series of commentaries on the biblical book of Ruth, with the intention of introducing readers to medieval exegesis or biblical interpretation.
Copyright 1996, pp. xxii + 67
ISBN 1-879288-68-0 (paperback) $8.00
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Commentary on the Book of Jonah
Haimo of Auxerre translated with an introduction and notes by Deborah Everhart
Haimo of Auxerre’s Commentary on the Book of Jonah was probably written as a study text for scholars in the monastery. His basic method is to present a verse from the Book of Jonah, then offer condensed versions of the diverse and occasionally contradictory interpretations of that verse that were available to him.
Copyright 1993, pp. vi + 45
ISBN 1-879288-36-2 (paperback) $6.00
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