
Shaping the Bible in the Reformation : Books, Scholars and Their Readers in the Sixteenth Century.
Title:
Shaping the Bible in the Reformation : Books, Scholars and Their Readers in the Sixteenth Century.
Author:
Gordon, Bruce.
ISBN:
9789004229501
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (318 pages)
Series:
Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World ; v.20
Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World
Contents:
Shaping the Biblein the Reformation -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- INSTRUCTING THE SOUL, FEEDING THE SPIRIT AND AWAKENING THE PASSION: HOLY WRIT AND LAY READERS IN LATE MEDIEVAL EUROPE -- ILLUSTRATIONS IN EARLY PRINTED LATIN BIBLES IN THE LOWCOUNTRIES (1477-1547) -- THE STRANGE CAREER OF THE BIBLIA RABBINICA AMONGCHRISTIAN HEBRAISTS, 1517-1620 -- HERMENEUTICS AND EXEGESIS IN THE EARLY EUCHARISTICCONTROVERSY -- 'CHRISTO TESTIMONIUM REDDUNT OMNES SCRIPTURAE': THEODOR BIBLIANDER'S ORATION ON ISAIAH (1532) AND COMMENTARYON NAHUM (1534) -- MOSES, PLATO AND FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS. CASTELLIO'S CONCEPTIONS OF SACRED AND PROFANE IN HIS LATIN VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE -- LATIN BIBLE TRANSLATIONS IN THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION: HISTORICAL CONTEXTS, PHILOLOGICAL JUSTIFICATION, AND THEIMPACT OF CLASSICAL RHETORIC ON THE CONCEPTION OFTRANSLATION METHODS -- GLOBAL CALVINISM: THE MAPS IN THE ENGLISH GENEVA BIBLE -- "EPITOME OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, MIRROR OF GOD'S GRACE, AND COMPLETE ANATOMY OF MAN": IMMANUELTREMELLIUS AND THE PSALMS -- AUGUSTINE AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIPIN LOUVAIN (1550-1650) -- LOOKING BACKWARDS: THE PROTESTANT LATIN BIBLE IN THE EYESOF JOHANNES PISCATOR AND ABRAHAM CALOV -- INDEX.
Abstract:
This volume collects significant new scholarship on the late mediaeval and early modern Bible, engaging with the work of theologians, the devotional needs of the laity and the shape their concerns gave to the most important book of the age.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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