Bede: On the Tabernacle
, by Holder, Arthur G.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780853233787 | 0853233780
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/5/1994
This volume contains the first English translation of Bede's allegorical commentary on the tabernacle of Moses, which he interpreted as a symbolic figure of the Christian Church. Written in the early 720s at the monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow in Northumbria, On the Tabernacle (De tabernaculo) was the first Christian literary work devoted entirely to this topic and the first verse-by-verse commentary on the relevant portions of the Book of Exodus. On the Tabernacle was one of Bede's most popular works, appearing in a great many manuscripts from every period of the Middle Ages.