Bible Translation
| Old Testament (Catholic Bible): 39 + 7 Books | |
| Pentateuch | Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy |
| Historical books | Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel (2), Kings (2), Chronicles (2), Ezra, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, Maccabees (2) |
| Wisdom books | Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus |
| Major prophets | Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Baruch, Ezekiel, Daniel |
| Minor prophets | Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi |
Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek / Apocryphal / rejected by Jerome
| Historia | Literal signification |
| Allegoria | Prefiguration of NT events |
| Tropologia | Moral lesson |
| Anagogia | Eschatological signification |
| Type | Antitype | Level |
| The Flood | Christ’s baptism | Allegorical |
| The Red Sea crossing | Cleansing of sins (through baptism) | Tropological |
| The conquest of Canaan | The attainment of the heavenly Jerusalem | Anagogical |
| The sacrifice of Isaac | The crucifixion | Allegorical |
| The sacrifice of Isaac | True faith | Tropological |
| Exemplum | Lesson |
| The Ten Virgins | Do not neglect or delay your religious duties |
| The Workers in the Vineyard | Grace is not a measure of effort or achievement |
| Peter’s walk on water | Faith is a necessary condition of achievement |
| Exemplum | Illustrative story or parable |
| Pericope | Scriptural passage selected for reading out during Mass |
| Sermon | Cathechetical or exhortative discourse |
| Homily | Exposition on the pericope |
In Anglo-Saxon studies, homily is used to refer to all religious exhortations, whether or not they make reference to a pericope.
| Gn 1–2 | Creation |
| Gn 3 | Fall of Man |
| Gn 4 | Killing of Abel |
| Gn 6–8 | Noah’s Flood |
| Gn 11 | Tower of Babel |
| Gn 12–21 | Abraham and Sarah |
| Gn 18–19 | Sodom and Gomorrah |
| Gn 19 | Lot |
| Gn 22 | Abraham and Isaac |
| Gn 27 | Isaac’s blessing of Jacob |
| Gn 37–45 | Joseph |
| Ex 3–4 | Moses and the burning bush |
| Ex 3–12 | Ten plagues of Egypt |
| Ex 12 | Passover and Exodus |
| Ex 14 | Crossing of the Red Sea |
| Ex 20 | Ten Commandments |
| Jo 6 | Fall of Jericho |
| Jgs 13–16 | Samson and Delilah |
| 1 Kings 3 | Solomon and the newborn baby |
| Jb | Job |
| Jon | Jonah |
| Genesis | Creation to Egypt |
| Exodus | Egyptian oppression to the Tabernacle |
| Leviticus | Regulations for the priesthood and lay cleanliness |
| Numbers | The Tabernacle to Canaan; the forty years to the plains of Moab |
| Deuteronomy | Moses’ three speeches (including the law code); succession by Joshua |
| Joshua | Conquest of Canaan; distribution of land between the tribes |
| Judges | Israel’s cycle of faithlessness and its religious leaders’ corrective efforts |
| Judith | An Israelite widow’s assassination of an Assyrian general |
| Psalms | Songs of praise and appeals for deliverance |
| Daniel | Prophetic visions and dreams set at the Babylonian and Persian courts |
| Genesis | Near-complete composite prose translation; poetic retelling | Gen, GenA, GenB |
| Exodus | Incomplete prose translations; poetic retelling | Ex, ÆCHom II, 15, ByrM, LawAfEl, Exod |
| Leviticus | Selective prose translation | Lev |
| Numbers | Selective prose translation | Num |
| Deuteronomy | Selective prose translation | Deut |
| Joshua | Incomplete, summarizing prose paraphrase | Josh |
| Judges | “Homily” / selective prose retelling | Judg |
| Judith | Poetic retelling | Jdt |
| Psalms | Prose translation; verse translation | PPs, PPs (prose) |
| Daniel | Poetic retellings | Dan, Az |
| On the Old and New Testament (ÆLet 4) | A synopsis with pointers to typology (all books) |
| Preface to Genesis (ÆGenPref) | On the dangers of vernacular Scripture (Gn) |
| De creatore et creatura (ÆCreat) | Didactic text on creation, the nature of God, and Salvation History (Gn) |
| Interrogationes Sigewulfi in Genesim (ÆIntSig) | Dialectical work tackling cruxes of Creation (Gn) |
| Hexameron (ÆHex) | Detailed text on the process and products of creation (Gn) |
| De populo Israhel (ÆHom 21) | The Israelites’ repeated dissent and punishment (Ex, Nm) |
| By cyningum (ÆHom 23) | Points out how rulers sometimes justifiably send their generals to fight in their stead (Sm, Kgs, Chr) |
| ÆLS (Book of Kings) | An excerpt from the Book of Kings (Kgs). |
| ÆLS (Pr Moses) | Draws a lesson from Moses’ prayer for Joshua’s victory (Ex). |
| In cena Domini (HomS 23) | Explains the liturgical practice of caput ieiunii with reference to Adam (Gn) |
| HomU 11 (Verc 7) | Points out how toil and doctrine earned the patriarchs divine rewards (Gn) |
| HomU 21 | Reasons that unlike Adam, we have no memory of Paradise (paraphrase from Gregory’s Dialogues) (Gn) |
| HomU 57 | Interprets the 70 years of exile as the 7 ages of the world (Chr, Ezr, Jer, Dn) |
| De visione Isaie prophete (WHom 11) | In which God calls out the Israelites by mouth of Isaiah for specific sins (Is). |
| Wulfstan’s version of Ælfric’s De falsis diis (WHom 12) | An abbreviated introduction to classical polytheism, followed by the recommendation to worship the one trinitarian God (Gn). |
| Verba Ezechielis prophete (WHom 16) | Warns that bishops and priests have a duty not only to live virtuously, but to address the vices of the people (Ez, Is). |
| Be godcunde warnunge (WHom 19) | Translates some of God’s instructions to Moses (Lev) |