Chana, it occurs to me that the Discalced Carmelite friars at Stella Maris monastery on Mount Carmel may have the bibliography which I mentioned if they subscribe to Carmelus. -- Paul

On 17 June 2017 at 10:47, Paul Chandler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Chana, as always I would suggest checking the relevant article(s) in the French mega-encyclopedias of the 20th century: Dictionnaire de théologie catholique, Dictionnaire de spiritualité, Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie, Dictionnaire de la Bible, Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques. There are sometimes monograph-length articles of ambitious scope with much historical detail and many references. These works are mostly online.

As pointed out, the Carmelite Order has felt a connection to Elijah. The excellent Bibliographia Carmelitana Annualis has a section on Elijah and would have caught much of the literature on him in European languages since 1953. Unfortunately there's no online form of it and it's not common in libraries (in the second number of the journal Carmelus each year).

Two of the more interesting resources are:
Élie le prophète. (Études carmélitaines). Bruges and Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1955;
Élie le prophète: Bible, tradition, iconographie. Edited by Gérard Willems. Colloque des 10 et 11
novembre 1985. Bruxelles: Institutum Judaicum, 1988.

Also worth a look is:
Le saint Prophète Élie d’après les Pères de l’Église. (Collection Spiritualité Orientale. Série Monachisme Primitif, 53). Bégrolles-en-Mauges: Abbaye de Bellefontaine, 1992 [an anthology of 700+ p.]; and maybe
Andrew Jotischky, The Carmelites and Antiquity: Mendicants and Their Pasts in the Middle Ages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

For ways of tracking down themes in medieval literature Kaske is very useful:
R.E. Kaske, Medieval Christian Literary Imagery: A Guide to Interpretation. (Toronto Medieval Bibliographies.) Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1988.

In terms of a "compilation of exegesis that would have been familiar to the widest circles" you could try the Catena aurea of Thomas Aquinas and search the NT texts which mention Elijah and/or John the Baptist.

If you get in touch offlist (see my email below) I can send you a longer bibliography. -- Paul

On 13 June 2017 at 18:29, Bill Schipper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Chana,

The best place to start is the 11 volume Repertorium Biblicum Medii Aevi, by Stegmuller. It lists most medieval commentaries on the books of the bible, has indexes, lists manuscripts (not complete), and editions. Plus, most usefully, he gives opening and closing words, not just in a few phrases, but in full sentences, which makes it much easier to identify.

The Repertorium is available online via the University of Regensburg (www.repbib.uni-trier.de/). Useful, even though it is my understanding that it isnot being expanded.

There is also Baruch and Lemaire’s Book of Kings: Sources, Composition, Historiography and Reception, Vetus Testamentum Supplementa, 129 (Leiden: Brill, 2010), and particularly Part VI (Reception in Judaism and Christianity). [I haven’t looked at this book).

Bill Schipper

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I would greatly appreciate some help finding commentaries on the Bible that were compiled and/or popular during the high middle ages in Western Europe.

The focus of my research is Elijah the Prophet and I want to see what was written about him on the basis of his activity in Kings and his connection to John the Baptist.

So far in me research, I have found two kinds of discussions. The first is the biblical commentary of the church fathers, and the second is the modern biblical scholarship focusing on the first centuries AD.

These materials have been very helpful, but not enough to understand how Elijah was viewed in 12-15th century western Europe.
Can anyone point me to a so-called "golden standard" of medieval biblical commentary? A compilation of exegesis that would have been familiar to the widest circles of the population (to varying degrees, of course)?

Thank you very much,
Chana

Chana Shacham-Rosby
PhD Candidate
Department of Jewish History
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
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