History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 2: From Late Antiquity to the End of the Middle Ages (Biblia.com)

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Volume two of History of Biblical Interpretation begins in Asia Minor in the late-fourth century with Bishop Theodore of Mopsuestia, the founder of a school of interpretation that accentuated the literal meaning of the Bible and thereby stood out from the tradition of antiquity. It ends with another outsider, a thousand years later in England, who stood at the end of an era: John Wyclif. This...

from models of several sorts, included above all worship tasks: liturgical songs and prayers, as well as handworks for the support of the monastery, benevolence to the needy, and hospitality to strangers. Bede was entrusted, it seems, with instructional tasks in particular, presumably in a monastery-owned school. From this activity came directly the production of textbooks and indirectly a rich authorship, on which Bede’s extraordinary fame was based. This fame, arising soon after his death in 735,

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