Rather, he appears to have aimed to produce a text focussed on the inculcation of virtue through examples. It seems that the translator was not concerned with promoting an English ideology. This is significant, since there are indications that the OEB was more widely known that the HE in the tenth century. It is often argued that Bede provided an ideological blueprint for the creation of a single English kingdom in the tenth century, but the parts of the HE upon which this interpretation depends are among those omitted from the OEB. It adds little to Bede's text but makes substantial excisions and abbreviations, removing much historical narrative, many quoted documents and most references to theological controversy. The Old English Bede (OEB), a vernacular version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica (HE), was written sometime before c.900, possibly at King Alfred's behest.
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