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Brian Murdoch, The Medieval Popular Bible: Expansions of Genesis in the Middle Ages.

Publication: Medium Aevum
Publication Date: 22-SEP-04
Format: Online - approximately 595 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Brian Murdoch, The Medieval Popular Bible: Expansions of Genesis in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Brian Murdoch, The Medieval Popular Bible: Expansions of Genesis in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003). ix + 209 pp. ISBN 0-85991-776-2. 50.00 [pounds sterling].

The book is based on Brian Murdoch's Speaker's Lectures, delivered at Oxford in 2001-2, and aims to reproduce these with a degree of fidelity. Murdoch asks the question: 'what did medieval vernacular writers understand by and present as the Bible?' He is aware of the fallacy which underlies the construction of a popular Bible, a 'hypothetical book' spanning many centuries, but...

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