Introduction / Ineke van 't Spijker -- Exegesis as a cultural framework -- Variants, Arians, and the trace of Mark : Jerome and Ambrose on "neque fi lius" in Matthew 24:36 / J.K. Kitchen -- The rabbinic legend of the Septuagint in Abraham ibn Daud's writings / Katja Vehlow -- Saul et David, premiers rois oints : l'interpretation de ces modeles royaux par deux exegetes carolingiens, Raban Maur et Angelome de Luxeuil / Caroline Chevalier-Royet -- La representation du pouvoir seculier chez Haymon d'Auxerre / Sumi Shimahara -- Trinity and christology in Haimo of Auxerre's Pauline commentaries / Ian Christopher Levy -- Factus est homo in animam uiuentem : anthropologie chretienne et psychologie dans l'exegese de Claude de Turin, ca. 827-828 / Pierre Boucaud -- The multiple meaning of scripture -- Spiritual exegesis and the church in Haimo of Auxerre's commentary on Isaiah / Elisabeth Megier -- Lectiones magistri anselmi : les commentaires d'Anselme de Laon sur le cantique des cantiques / Cedric Giraud -- The literal sense of scripture according to Rupert of Deutz / Wanda Zemler-Cizewski -- The literal and the spiritual : Richard of Saint-Victor and the multiple meaning of scripture / Ineke van 't Spijker -- "Closer to the hebrew" : Herbert of Bosham's interpretation of literal exegesis / Eva de Visscher -- ". . . mysteria magis delectant . . ." die exegese des zisterzienserabtes Isaak von Stella, ca. 1178 / Alexander Fidora -- Andrew of Saint-Victor and his Franciscan critics / Frans van Liere -- Twelfth-century biblical exegetes and the invention of literature / Robert A. Harris.