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The four volumes in The New Cambridge History of the Bible examine the history of the Bible. Incorporating up-to-date scholarly methods and approaches, it examines the Bible in the context of Judaism and Islam, thus making it relevant to students and scholars of all three Abrahamic faiths.

This volume examines the development and use of the Bible from late Antiquity to the Reformation, tracing both its geographical and its intellectual journeys from its homelands throughout the Middle East and Mediterranean and into northern Europe. Richard Marsden and E. Ann Matter's volume provides a balanced treatment of eastern and western biblical traditions, highlighting processes of transmission and modes of exegesis among Roman and Orthodox Christians, Jews and Muslims and illuminating the role of the Bible in medieval inter-religious dialogue. Translations into Ethiopic, Slavic, Armenian and Georgian vernaculars, as well as Romance and Germanic, are treated in detail, along with the theme of allegorized spirituality and established forms of glossing. The chapters take the study of Bible history beyond the cloisters of medieval monasteries and ecclesiastical schools to consider the influence of biblical texts on vernacular poetry, prose, drama, law and the visual arts of East and West.

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the Bible's reception in the earliest period of its history. It reflects recent increasing specialization of Old Testament studies and rich research into Pentateuch theory, Septuagint scholarship and Qumran studies and devotes considerable attention to the period running from the New Testament to 600.

This volume examines the Bible's role in the modern world, focusing on the effects of political, technological, and cultural developments. The authors demonstrate that, in spite of challenges to the Bible's authority in western Europe, it remains highly relevant and influential, not least in the Americas, Africa, and Asia.

This volume follows the Bible's story from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. This crucial period saw the beginnings of modern scholarly study of the text, the appearance of many definitive translations from the original languages to European vernaculars, and the exportation of the Bible to the rest of the world.