Christian Biblical Exegesis in English Translation, c. 600–1200
This list attempts to collect all modern English translations of medieval Christian biblical interpretation (commentaries, sermons, and methodological treatises) in Catholic Europe from Gregory the Great (c. 600) to c. 1200. When more than one translation exists, I have chosen the more complete, more recent, and/or more accessible edition. They are listed chronologically by author’s year of death or, for works of unknown authorship, approximate date of completion. Under each category, methodological works are listed first with the rest in order of biblical book. Names and order of biblical books (as well as numbering of chapters and verses) are according to the RSV and NRSV. Note: Psalms that I have not double-checked may be off by one chapter and/or verse.
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Gregory the Great. Morals on the Book of Job. Translated by Members of the English Church. 3 vols. (vol. 2 in 2 parts). Vols. 18, 20, 21, and 31, Library of the Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church. Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1844–1850. [Job]
———. Moralia in Iob, Books 1–5 and conclusion (35.20.49). Draft translation by James O’Donnell. http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/jod/gregory.html. [Job pref., 1:1–5:2]
———. The Commentary on Job. In Early Medieval Theology, pp. 179–191. Edited and translated by George E. McCracken and Allen Cabaniss. Vol. 9, Library of Christian Classics. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1957. [Job dedication, pref. to 2]
———. Selections from Exposition of the Song of Songs. In The Song of Songs, Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators, pp. 7–10, 28, 30–31, 33, 36, and 44–45. Translated by Richard A. Norris, Jr. The Church’s Bible. Edited by Robert Louis Wilken. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. [Song of Solomon pref., 1:2–4, 1:6]
———. Homilies of Saint Gregory the Great on the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel. Translated by Theodosia Tomkinson (née Gray) and edited by Presbytera Juliana Cownie. Etna, CA: Center for Traditionalist Orthodox Studies, 1990. [Ezekiel]
———. Forty Gospel Homilies. Translated by Dom David Hurst, OSB. Vol. 123, Cistercian Studies. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1990. [Gospels]
The First Commentary on Mark: An Annotated Translation. Translated and edited by Michael Cahill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. [Mark]
Isidore of Seville. “On Ruth.” In Medieval Exegesis in Translation: Commentaries on the Book of Ruth, pp. 7–8. Translated by Lesley Smith. TEAMS Commentary Series. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1996. [Ruth]
Bischoff, Bernhard, and Michael Lapidge. Biblical Commentaries from the Canterbury School of Theodore and Hadrian. Vol. 10, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. [Genesis; Exodus; Leviticus; Numbers; Deuteronomy; Gospels]
Bede the Venerable. Bede: On Genesis. Translated by Calvin Kendall. Translated Texts for Historians. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, expected Feb. 2008. [Genesis]
———. Bede: On the Tabernacle. Translated by Arthur G. Holder. Vol. 18, Translated Texts for Historians. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1994. [Exodus 24–30]
———. Bede: A Biblical Miscellany. Translated by W. Trent Foley and Arthur G. Holder. Vol. 28, Translated Texts for Historians. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999. [1–2 Samuel; 1–2 Kings; Psalm 119:140; Isaiah 24:21–23; Tobit; Matthew 2:1–12; Romans 12:19, 14:5; 2 Corinthians 11:24–26]
———. Bede: On the Temple. Translated by Seán Connolly. Vol. 21, Translated Texts for Historians. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1995. [1 Kings 5–7]
———. Bede: On Ezra and Nehemiah. Translated by Scott DeGregorio. Vol. 47, Translated Texts for Historians. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006. [Ezra; Nehemiah]
———. On the Song of Songs and Other Spiritual Writings. Translated by Arthur Holder. Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press (in preparation). [Song of Solomon]
———. Selections from Exposition of the Song of Songs. In The Song of Songs, Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators, pp. 43, 111, 159–60, 191–92, 240–41, 261–63, and 275–77. Translated by Richard A. Norris, Jr. The Church’s Bible. Edited by Robert Louis Wilken. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. [Song of Solomon 1:5, 2:5, 4:1, 4:16, 6:9, 7:7–9, 8:1–2]
———. On Tobit and the Canticle of Habakkuk. Translated by Seán Connolly. Portland, OR: Four Courts Press, 1997. [Habakkuk 3:2–19; Tobit]
———. Homilies on the Gospels. Translated by Lawrence T. Martin and Dom David Hurst, OSB. 2 vols. Vols. 110–111, Cistercian Studies. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1991. [Gospels]
———. Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles. Translated by Lawrence T. Martin. Vol. 117, Cistercian Studies. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1989. [Acts]
———. Excerpts from the Works of Saint Augustine on the Letters of the Blessed Apostle Paul. Translated by Dom David Hurst, OSB. Vol. 183, Cistercian Studies. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1999. [Romans; 1–2 Corinthians; Galatians; Ephesians; Philippians; Colossians; 1–2 Thessalonians; 1–2 Timothy; Titus; Hebrews]
———. Commentary on the Seven Catholic Epistles. Translated by Dom David Hurst, OSB. Vol. 82, Cistercian Studies. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1985. [James; 1–2 Peter; 1–3 John; Jude]
———. Bede: On the Apocalypse. Translated by Faith Wallis. Translated Texts for Historians. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, in preparation. [Revelation]
Alcuin. Commentary on the Epistle to Titus. In Early Medieval Theology, pp. 192–210. Edited and translated by George E. McCracken and Allen Cabaniss. Vol. 9, Library of Christian Classics. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1957. [Titus 1, 2:7–15]
Claudius of Turin. Commentary on Galatians. In Early Medieval Theology, pp. 211–40. Edited and translated by George E. McCracken and Allen Cabaniss. Vol. 9, Library of Christian Classics. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1957. [Galatians dedication, 3]
Haimo of Auxerre. Commentary on the Book of Jonah. Translated by Deborah Everhart. TEAMS Commentary Series. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1993. [Jonah]
———. Second Thessalonians: Two Early Medieval Apocalyptic Commentaries. Translated by Steven R. Cartwright and Kevin L. Hughes. TEAMS Commentary Series. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2001. [2 Thessalonians]
Thietland of Einsiedeln. Second Thessalonians: Two Early Medieval Apocalyptic Commentaries. Translated by Steven R. Cartwright and Kevin L. Hughes. TEAMS Commentary Series. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2001. [2 Thessalonians]
John Scotus Erigena. The Voice of the Eagle: Homily on the Prologue to the Gospel of St. John. Translated by Christopher Bamford. Hudson, N.Y.: Lindisfarne Press, 1990. [John 1]
Ælfric of Eynsham. On the Old and New Testaments. Draft translation by Jonathan Hall at http://purl.oclc.org/net/jonhall/texts/AelfricTest.html [Complete summary]
Ivo of Chartres. “Sermon on the Lord’s Prayer.” In Early Medieval Theology, pp. 317–323. Edited and translated by George E. McCracken and Allen Cabaniss. Vol. 9, Library of Christian Classics. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1957. [Matthew 6:9–13]
Rupert of Deutz. Selections from Commentary on the Song of Songs. In The Song of Songs, Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators, pp. 24–25, 95–96, 139–141, 151–53, 160, 183, and 192–93. Translated by Richard A. Norris, Jr. The Church’s Bible. Edited by Robert Louis Wilken. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. [Song of Solomon 1:2, 2:1, 3:1–4, 3:7, 3:11, 4:1, 4:10, 4:16]
———. “An Apologetic Preface to the Commentary on John.” Translated by Abigail Ann Young. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young/prefatio.html. [John pref.]
———. Commentary on Saint John. In Early Medieval Theology, pp. 257–268. Edited and translated by George E. McCracken and Allen Cabaniss. Vol. 9, Library of Christian Classics. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1957. [John pref., 1:1–14]
Hugh of St. Victor. Books 4–6 of The Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts. Translated by Jerome Taylor. Vol. 64, Records of Civilization Sources and Studies. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. [Method]
———. Prologue of On the Sacraments of the Christian Faith (De Sacramentis). Translated by Roy J. Deferrari. Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1951. [Method]
———. Books 1 and 3 of Noah’s Ark. In Selected Spiritual Writings, pp. ?. Translated by a religious of the CSMV. New York: Harper and Row, 1962. [Genesis]
———. Selection from On the Love of the Bridegroom for the Bride. In The Song of Songs, Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators, pp. 167–72. Translated by Richard A. Norris, Jr. The Church’s Bible. Edited by Robert Louis Wilken. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. [Song of Solomon 4:6–8]
———. “The Soul’s Three Ways of Seeing (from the unfinished commentary on Ecclesiastes).” In Selected Spiritual Writings, pp. ?. Translated by a religious of the CSMV. New York: Harper and Row, 1962. [Ecclesiastes]
Peter Abelard. Prologue to the Yes and No. In Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism c. 1100–c. 1375: The Commentary-Tradition, pp. 87–100. Edited and translated by A.J. Minnis and A.B. Scott. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. [Method]
———. Prologue to the Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. In Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism c. 1100–c. 1375: The Commentary-Tradition, pp. 100–05. Edited and translated by A.J. Minnis and A.B. Scott. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. [Method; Romans pref.]
———. “Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans (An Excerpt from the Second Book).” In A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to Ockham, pp. 276–87. Edited and translated by Eugene R. Fairweather. The Library of Christian Classics. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1956. [Romans 3]
“Ruth.” In Medieval Exegesis in Translation: Commentaries on the Book of Ruth, pp. 11–36. Translated by Lesley Smith. TEAMS Commentary Series. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1996. [Ruth]
The Glossa Ordinaria on the Song of Songs. Translated by Mary Dove. TEAMS Commentary Series. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1997. Also published with the Latin in CCCM 170. [Song of Solomon]
Selections from the Glossa Ordinaria on the Song of Songs. In The Song of Songs, Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators, pp. 30, 79, 89, 96, 180, 186–87, 218, 246, 260–61, and 271. Translated by Richard A. Norris, Jr. The Church’s Bible. Edited by Robert Louis Wilken. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. [Song of Solomon 1:2, 1:14, 1:17, 2:2, 4:10, 4:15, 5:11, 6:10, 7:1, 7:12]
Gilbert the Universal. Glossa ordinaria in Lamentationes Ieremie prophete: Prothemata et Liber I. Edited and translated by Alexander Andrée. Vol. 52, Studia Latina Stockholmiensa. Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell International, 2005. [Lamentations preface, 1]
“The School of Anselm of Laon: The Gloss on I Corinthians, Chapter 15.” In A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to Ockham, pp. 267–75. Edited and translated by Eugene R. Fairweather. The Library of Christian Classics. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1956. [1 Corinthians 15]
William of St. Thierry. Exposition on the Song of Songs. Translated by M. Columba Hart, OSB. Vol. 6, Cistercian Fathers. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1970. [Song of Solomon]
———. Selections from Exposition of the Song of Songs. In The Song of Songs, Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators, pp. 10–17, 29–30, 42–43, 64–65, 83–85, 105–06, and 123–24. Translated by Richard A. Norris, Jr. The Church’s Bible. Edited by Robert Louis Wilken. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. [Song of Solomon pref., 1:2–3, 1:5, 1:10, 1:15, 2:4, 2:13–14]
———. Exposition on the Epistle to the Romans. Translated by John Baptist Hasbrouk, OCSO. Vol. 27, Cistercian Fathers. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 2000. [Romans]
Geoffrey of Auxerre. On the Apocalypse. Translated by Joseph Gibbons, CSSP. Vol. 42, Cistercian Fathers. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 2000. [Revelation]
Bernard of Clairvaux. Sermons for the Summer Season. Translated by Beverly Kienzle and James Jarzembowski. Vol. 53, Cistercian Fathers. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1991. [1 Sam 17; Mark 16:14–18; Luke 11:5–6; John 5:35; Ephesians 4:9–10]
———. Sermons on Conversion. Translated by Marie-Bernard Saïd, OSB. Vol. 25, Cistercian Fathers. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1981. [Psalm 91]
———. Sermons on the Song of Songs. Translated by Kilian Walsh, OCSO and Irene Edmonds. 4 vols. Vol. 4, 7, 31, and 40, Cistercian Fathers. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1971–1980. [Song of Solomon 1:1–3:1]
———. Selections from Sermons on the Song of Songs. In The Song of Songs, Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators, pp. 22–23, 40–42, 58, 82–83, and 132–33. Translated by Richard A. Norris, Jr. The Church’s Bible. Edited by Robert Louis Wilken. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. [Song of Solomon 1:2, 1:5, 1:8, 1:15, 2:16]
———. Homilies in Praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Translated by Marie-Bernard Saïd, OSB. Vol. 18A, Cistercian Fathers. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1993. Previously published in Bernard of Clairvaux and Amadeus of Lausanne. Magnificat: Homilies in Praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Translated by Marie-Bernard Saïd and Grace Perigo. Vol. 18, Cistercian Fathers. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1979. [Luke 1:26–56]
———. The Parables and the Sentences. Translated by Michael Casey, OCSO and Francis R. Swietek. Vol. 55, Cistercian Fathers. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1999. [?]
Honorius Augustodunensis. The Seal of the Blessed Mary. Translated by Amelia Carr. Peregrina Translation Series. Toronto: Peregrina, 1991. [Song of Solomon ?]
———. Selections from Exposition of the Song of Songs. In The Song of Songs, Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators, pp. 17, 23–24, 163–64, 183–86, 206–08, 222–225, 230–31, 248–50, 261, 271–72, and 278. Translated by Richard A. Norris, Jr. The Church’s Bible. Edited by Robert Louis Wilken. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. [Song of Solomon pref., 1:2, 4:4, 4:12–15, 5:6, 5:13–16, 6:1, 6:11–13, 7:3, 7:12, 8:1]
Peter Lombard. Prologue to the Commentary on the Psalter. In Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism c. 1100–c. 1375: The Commentary-Tradition, pp. 105–12. Edited and translated by A.J. Minnis and A.B. Scott. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988. [Method; Psalms pref.]
Aelred of Rievaulx. The Liturgical Sermons: The First Clairvaux Collection, Advent–All Saints. Translated by Theodore Berkeley, OCSO and M. Basil Pennington, OCSO. Vol. 58, Cistercian Fathers. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 2001. [Matthew 5:1–12, 21:1–9; Luke 2:1–14; 1 Peter 2:9]
Isaac of Stella. Sermons on the Christian Year, I. Translated by Hugh McCaffery, OCSO. Vol. 11, Cistercian Fathers. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1979. [Matthew 5:1–9, 8:1–4, 8:23–24, 20:1–6; Luke 2:41–51, 8:5; John 2:1–10]
Achard of St. Victor. Sermons in Works, pp. 71–351. Translated by Hugh Bernard Feiss, OSB. Vol. 165, Cistercian Studies. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 2001. [2 Kings 4:27–35; Psalms 19:4–5; Proverbs 9:1; Isaiah 7:14–15; Ecclesiasticus 24:17; Matthew 4:1, 17:1–2, 20:1–6, 21:1–2, 21:7]
Gilbert of Hoyland. Sermons on the Song of Songs. Translated by Lawrence C. Braceland, SJ. 3 vols. Vols. 14, 20, and 26, Cistercian Fathers. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1978–1979. [Song of Solomon 3:1–5:10]
———. IV. Treatises, Sermons and Epistles with Roger of Byland’s the Milk of Babes. Translated by Lawrence C. Braceland, SJ. Vol. 34, Cistercian Fathers. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1981. [Gospels]
Richard of St. Victor. The Twelve Patriarchs; The Mystical Ark; Book Three of The Trinity. Translated by Grover A. Zinn. Classics of Western Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press, 1979. [Genesis; Exodus]
———. “Mystical Comments on the Psalms.” In A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to Ockham, pp. 319–20. Edited and translated by Eugene R. Fairweather. The Library of Christian Classics. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1956. [Psalm 85:10]
———. Selections from Explication of the Song of Songs. In The Song of Songs, Interpreted by Early Christian and Medieval Commentators, pp. 141–42, 173–75, 181–82, 202–204, 211–12, and 225–26. Translated by Richard A. Norris, Jr. The Church’s Bible. Edited by Robert Louis Wilken. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. [Song of Solomon 3:4, 4:8, 4:10–11, 5:4, 5:9–10, 5:16]
———. “On Ezekiel’s Vision (The First Part of the Prologue.” In A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to Ockham, pp. 321–23. Edited and translated by Eugene R. Fairweather. The Library of Christian Classics. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1956. [Ezekiel]
Andrew of St. Victor. Commentary on Samuel and Kings. Edited and translated by Frans van Liere. TEAMS Commentary Series. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, forthcoming. [1–2 Samuel; 1–2 Kings]
Peter Comestor. Sermon 102, “The Book of Life”. Working translation by Jonathan Hall at http://purl.oclc.org/net/jonhall/texts/PeterComestorS102Tr.html [Exodus 20:1–17; Deuteronomy 4:1, 5:6–21]
———. “On Ruth, from The Scholastic History.” In Medieval Exegesis in Translation: Commentaries on the Book of Ruth, pp. 37–39. Translated by Lesley Smith, TEAMS Commentary Series. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1996. [Ruth]
Peter of Celle. Sermons in Selected Works, pp. 43–59. Translated by Hugh Bernard Feiss, OSB. Vol. 100, Cistercian Studies. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1987. [Psalms 43:1, 78:25; Philippians 2:5]
Peter of Waltham. Source Book of Self-Discipline: A Synthesis of Moralia in Job by Gregory the Great: A Translation of Peter of Waltham’s Remediarium conversorum. Translated by Joseph J. Gildea, OSA. New York: Peter Lang, 1991. [Job]