Biblical Exegesis and Mystical Theology in the Venerable Bede

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Introduction
Part I Bede as teacher and biblical scholar
	1 Bede and the tradition of patristic exegesis
	2 (Un)dating Bede’s De arte metrica
	3 The feminine Christ in Bede’s biblical commentaries
	4 Bede and the New Testament
Part II Bede on the tabernacle and the temple
	5 New treasures and old in Bede’s De tabernaculo and De templo
	6 Allegory and history in Bede’s interpretation of sacred architecture
	7 The Venerable Bede on the mysteries of our salvation
	8 Introduction to Bede: On the Tabernacle
Part III Bede on the Song of Songs
	9 The patristic sources of Bede’s commentary on the Song of Songs
	10 The anti-Pelagian character of Bede’s commentary on the Song of Songs
	11 Christ as incarnate Wisdom in Bede’s commentary on the Song of Songs
	12 Bede’s spiritual teachings
Part IV Bede on philosophy and heresy
	13 Using philosophers to think with: the Venerable Bede on Christian life and practice
	14 Hunting snakes in the grass: Bede as heresiologist
Part V Bede as mystical theologian
	15 Bede’s perfecti, the vision of God, and the foretaste of heaven
	16 Bede and the spiritual senses
	17 Co-heirs of Christ’s glory: deification in Bede
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