"Take hold of the robe of a Jew"; Herbert of Bosham's Christian hebraism.9004149058 "Take hold of the robe of a Jew"; Herbert of Bosham's Christian hebraism. Goodwin, Deborah L. Brill Academic Publishers 2006 300 pages $134.00 Hardcover Studies in the history of Christian traditions; v.126 BS1429 Herbert was a member of Thomas Becket's episcopal household and an ardent polemist po·lem·ist n. Variant of polemicist. polemicist, polemist a skilled debater in speech or writing. — polemical, adj. See also: Argumentation Noun 1. for him during his life and hagiographer hag·i·og·ra·phy n. pl. hag·i·og·ra·phies 1. Biography of saints. 2. A worshipful or idealizing biography. hag after his murder in 1170. Taking up interest that began only in the 1950s, Goodwin (religion, Gustavus Adolphus College Gustavus Adolphus College is a private liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America founded in Red Wing, Minnesota, in 1862 by Eric Norelius and was originally named Minnesota Elementar Skola. In 1865 on the 1,000th year anniversary of the death of St. ) looks at Herbert's own scholarly work, in particular at his Psalterium psalterium /psal·te·ri·um/ (sal-ter´e-um) commissure of the fornix. cun commento, a commentary on the literary sense of the version of the Books of Psalms that Jerome presumably pre·sum·a·ble adj. That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. translated directly from the Hebrew, rather than the Gallican version usually discussed in the Christian tradition. His life, milieu, approach, and ideas are all part of the story. The study is expanded and revised from her 2001 Ph.D. dissertation for the University of Notre Dame. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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