Lesley Janette Smith

This book brings together and translates from the medieval Latin a series of commentaries on the biblical book of Ruth, with the intention of introducing readers to medieval exegesis or biblical interpretation. . . . Ruth is the shortest book of the Old Testament, being only four chapters long. It is partly for this reason that it lends itself so well to a short book introducing medieval exegesis; but it is also of interest in itself. Ruth poses a number of exegetical problems, including the basic one of why such an odd book, in which God never appears as an actor, and with a central character who was not an Israelite but a Moabite outsider, and a woman at that, should find a place in the canon of Scripture.

Commentaries on the Book of Ruth

Medieval Exegesis in Translation

Jane H. M. Taylor

Lesley M. Smith

Papers on women and religion in the middle ages, drawn from archive, manuscipt and early printed sources.

Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993

Women, the Book, and the Godly

Philip D. W. Krey

The first modern study of Nicholas of Lyra, immensely influential fourteenth-century Franciscan biblical commentator. Fifteen essays on his masterpiece, the "Postillae super totam Bibliam," illuminate the remarkable achievement of this key thinker, from his knowledge of Hebrew to political ideas.

Lesley Janette Smith

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