Rebecca Barnhouse is a professor at Youngstown State University and has published children's literature in addition to medieval scholarship. Benjamin C. Withers is a professor of art history at the University of Kentucky and the director of university's Honor Program.

• Manuscript Sigla List of Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Aspects and Approaches by Rebecca Barnhouse and Benjamin C. Withers The Preface as Admonition: Aelfric's Preface to Genesis by Melinda J. Menzer Translation by Committee? The Anonymous Text of the Old English Hexateuch by Richard Marsden Shaping the Hexateuch Text for an Anglo-Saxon Audience by Rebecca Barnhouse Assessing the Liturgical Canticles from the Old English Hexateuch by Sarah Larratt Keefer Fragmentary Versions of Genesis in Old English Prose: Context and Function by Mary P. Richards A Program of Illumination in the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch: Visual Typology? by David F. Johnson The Anglo-Saxon Genesis: Text, Illustration, and Audience by Catherine E. Karkov The First Laugh: Laughter in Genesis and the Old English Tradition by Jonathan Wilcox Early Modern Users of Claudius B. iv: Robert Talbot and William L'Isle by Timothy Graham A Sense of Englishness: Claudius B. iv, Colonialism, and the History of Anglo-Saxon Art in the Mid-Twentieth Century by Benjamin C. Withers