The Psalms in the Early Irish Church

Martin J. McNamara

• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN: 9781850759256
• eBook ISBN: 9780567540348
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

A creative, independent, Irish exegetical tradition was well established by the year 700 CE, influencing Northumbria but not Continental Europe. This book contains eight studies by the distinguished Irish biblical scholar, Martin McNamara, which he has published over the past twenty-five years, on the Latin biblical texts (Vulgate, Gallicanum and Jerome's Hebraicum) of the Psalter and commentaries on it in Ireland from 600 CE onwards. The oldest Irish Vulgate text, the Cathach of St Columba of Iona (died 597), shows signs of correction against the Irish recension of the Hebrew text. The central exegetical tradition is strongly Antiochene, being dependent on the commentary of Theodore of Mopsuestia (in Julian's translation), while another branch understands the Psalms as principally about David, rather than christologically or as about later Jewish history.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Psalter Text and Psalter Study in the Early Irish Church (600-1200 CE)
• The Psalms in the Irish Church: The Most Recent Research on Text, Commentary and Decoration—with Emphasis on the So-called Psalter of Charlemagne
• Introduction to Glossa in Psalmos: The Hiberno-Latin Gloss on the Psalms of Codex Palatinus Latinus 68
• Tradition and Creativity in Early Irish Psalter Study
• Some Affiliations of the St Columba Series of Psalm Headings: A Preliminary Study
• The Psalter in Early Irish Monastic Spirituality
• Christology and the Interpretation of the Psalms in the Early Irish Church
• The Irish Affiliations of the Catechesis Celtica
• Index of Biblical References
• Index of Authors
• Index of Manuscripts