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...

comprehensive work. Due to its vast size, it could not be assembled into a single handwritten manuscript at the time of its origin; instead, its forty-two books filled up six volumes, which apparently only a single library (that of the Prüfening Abbey at Regensburg) was able to purchase in toto. Fortunately, there is now a modern critical edition (CCCM 21–24; hereafter cited by volume). The work’s most important distinctive characteristic is that in it Rupert offers a complete depiction of salvation

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