Recommended Reference sources:
See this very substantial overview in Wikipedia and this Wikipedia summary of Bede's works
Bede select commentaries or homilies:
Homilies on the Gospels by the Venerable Bede by
From the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, Bede's authority as a scriptural exegete was second only to that of the Doctors of the Latin Church. His influence was enormous. Yet modern readers associate this remarkable scholar-monk only with his History of the English Church and Nation and ignore the works he saw as his chief accomplishment. -
Bede: a Biblical Miscellany by
This volume contains six of Bede's shorter biblical writings, most of which appear here in translation for the first time - On Tobias, On the Resting Places, Thirty Questions on the Book of Kings, On Eight Questions, On the Holy Places and the letter On What Isaiah Says. Taken together, they reveal his amazing versatility as a biblical exegete.
The Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles by
In his monastery in a remote corner of Europe, the grandson of Anglo-Saxon pagans quietly spent his life studying and writing, passing the wisdom of christian antiquity on to generations of latin readers. And in the process, this most learned and the least proud of men came to be acknowledged as a Doctor of the Church. Bede's commentary on the Book of Acts is one of his earliest exegetical works (usually dated between 709 and 710) and one of his most popular and influential. None of the Latin Fathers of the Church had written a commentary on this book, and those which existed in Greek were unlikely to have been known in the West. Bede became the authority on Acts for countless subsequent students of Scripture.
On the Song of Songs and selected writings by
The first English translation of Bede's allegorical commentary On the Song of Songs, along with selections from his homilies and the Ecclesiastical History, an introduction to his spirituality, and notes.+
NOTE: Hundreds more articles may be available on Bede that are not full-text online, but available from our library or via Interlibrary loan. Simply use the online catalog as follows: If you are looking for books written BY Bede you should search our online catalog or databases for his name as an AUTHOR (Bede the Venerable, Saint, 673-735). If you want to find resources ABOUT Bede or his theology, search for Subjects related to him ("Bede homilies", for example).
Here's a link to Books on Bede and his theology available at Luther Sem; many others available by interlibrary loan in Minnesota (Minitex)
Also consult the following databases for helpful articles or abstracts on Bede (both JSTOR and Open Access Theological Library have hundreds of book chapters or articles on Bede; see this JSTOR link for example).
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Bede in the Post-Reformation Digital Library
For digital resources, including rare manuscripts, on/of Bede, see the Digital Vatican Library
