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About the Author
Samuel J. Klumpenhouwer (Translator)
Samuel J. Klumpenhouwer holds a PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto. An expert in medieval theology and ecclesiastical history, he has also published translations of the Glossa ordinaria on Genesis and Matthew. He serves as academic dean of St. Martin's Academy in Fort Scott, Kansas, a boarding school that combines classical academics with practical work on a sustainable farm.
What People Are Saying
“Readers everywhere will have great reason to laud the work of Samuel Klumpenhouwer in bringing the tremendous riches of the great medieval Bible commentary to the English reader. The Glossa ordinaria was for centuries the primary access point for Christian readers to the wealth of theological commentaries. So many classic theological issues are addressed in this biblical book: the redemption from slavery, the celebration of the first Paschal feast, the giving of the law, the mystical ascent of Moses to the top of Mt. Sinai, the veneration of the golden calf and then Moses’s powerful prayer of intercession after the threat of divine judgment, not to mention the revelation of the sacred Tabernacle—rules that inspired the designers of the great medieval cathedrals. With so many riches to pursue, the reader will be hard-pressed to decide where to begin. Making this available to the lay reader is an extraordinary gift to the Church.”
Gary Anderson
University of Notre Dame
“It is sometimes thought that patristic and scholastic forms of theology are fundamentally at odds. With the publication of this volume, however, one can see that at the heart of the epoch of high medieval theology, theologians read from commentaries on Scripture deeply informed by patristic commentary. This new translation functions simultaneously as a source book for historical theology, especially medieval and scholastic, and as an inspiration for those interested in Scripture as the source of theological reflection.”
Thomas Joseph White, OP
Pontifical University of Saint Thomas
“With this excellent volume in hand, we enter the scholastic classroom to learn from the great patristic exegetes and medieval masters. Samuel Klumpenhouwer has done us all a great service in making the Glossa ordinaria on Exodus available in English translation. The book brims with interesting interpretive and doctrinal treasures that will enrich our understanding of God, deliverance, covenant, and the law. In addition to his accurate and readable translation, Klumpenhouwer provides copious notes that helpfully direct us to the ancient and early medieval sources from which the compilers of the Glossa drew their material. On every page the Glossa on Exodus shows forth key assumptions of the Church’s approach to Scripture, above all the belief that the sacred writings constitute a single divine disclosure wherein what is concealed in the Old Testament is clearly revealed in the New. Every scholar of the Old Testament and of medieval exegesis and theology will certainly want to have this volume ready to hand!”
Franklin T. Harkins
Boston College Clough School of Theology and Ministry
“Emmaus Academic’s series Biblia cum Glossa Ordinaria: The Great Medieval Commentary on Sacred Scripture is a tremendous effort to bring the most influential medieval textbook in biblical exegesis to modern readers. Following on a masterful treatment of the Gloss on Genesis, Samuel Klumpenhouwer’s translation of Exodus offers to English readers for the first time the collective understanding of the Middle Ages of the flight of the Hebrew people from Egypt and their adventures en route to the Holy Land. Set in the same format as that of the first printing of the Latin text of 1480/81, which itself mirrors the layout of the medieval manuscripts, the text presents itself to the modern reader in the same way as our medieval forbears experienced it. All levels of interpretation are made available on the page synoptically at the same time. There is no better way to study the Bible than medieval scholars did, in the company of the Glossa ordinaria.”
Alexander Andrée
Stockholm University
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