Faith Wallis is Professor Emerita at McGill University in Montreal. Her research focuses on the textual and manuscript transmission of medical and scientific knowledge in the Middle Ages. Her many books include Bede: Commentary on the Gospel of Luke (with Calvin B. Kendall, 2024), Isidore of Seville: On the Nature of Things (2016), Bede: Commentary on Revelation (2013), all in the Liverpool University Press Translated Texts for Historians series.Calvin B. Kendall is Emeritus Professor of English, University of Minnesota. His many books include The Allegory of the Church: Romanesque Portals and Their Verse Inscriptions (University of Toronto Press 1998) and (with Faith Wallis) Bede: On the Nature of Things and On Times (Liverpool University Press 2010).

• Introduction1. Why did Bede compose a Commentary on Luke?2. The structure of On Luke.3. Bede's expository strategies.4. Key themes in On Luke.5. Bede's style and vocabulary.6. The manuscripts and the transmission of the text.7. List of full manuscripts and manuscripts of extracts of Bede's Commentary on Luke.8. Editions of Bede's Commentary on Luke.9. Principles governing the present translation.Bede: Commentary on LukeAppendix 1. Emendations to text of CCSL 120.Appendix 2. Chapter numbers and Eusebian canon section numbers.Appendix 3. Luke canon section and table number with equivalent canon section numbers and modern chapter/verse parallels in Matthew, Mark, and John.BibliographyIndex of SourcesGeneral Index

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