Scripture and Pluralism: Reading the Bible in the Religiously Plural Worlds of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Biographical note
Thomas J. Heffernan, Ph.D. (1977, University of Cambridge), is Kenneth Curry Professor of the Humanities at the University of Tennessee. He has published widely in the field of hagiography, medieval religious literature, and is currently completing a critical edition of the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis. Some of his other books are: Sacred Biography (Oxford University Press, 1988) and The Liturgy of the Medieval Church (2nd Edition; Western Michigan University, 2005).
Thomas E. Burman, Ph.D. (1991, University of Toronto), is Lindsay Young Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of Religious Polemic and the Intellectual History of the Mozarabs, c. 1050-1200 (Brill, 1994) and, most recently, of Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560 from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Thomas E. Burman, Ph.D. (1991, University of Toronto), is Lindsay Young Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of Religious Polemic and the Intellectual History of the Mozarabs, c. 1050-1200 (Brill, 1994) and, most recently, of Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560 from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Readership
All scholars of Biblical Study in the period in question, as well as those interested in inter-religious relations.
Reviews
Apocalypticism was connected with revolutionary movements only in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, their rise not sufficiently explained until now.
To the extent that it is not only (…) apocalyptic apologies for violence which are on the rise, but more general religious apologies for (religion-based) conflicts, his appeal to attempt to "better understand" may well be extended more generally to the exchanges between religions. This volume contributes to such a better understanding.
Ineke van 't Spijker, Church History and Religious Culture
To the extent that it is not only (…) apocalyptic apologies for violence which are on the rise, but more general religious apologies for (religion-based) conflicts, his appeal to attempt to "better understand" may well be extended more generally to the exchanges between religions. This volume contributes to such a better understanding.
Ineke van 't Spijker, Church History and Religious Culture
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Thomas E. Burman
1. Nomen sacrum: God’s Name as Shield and Weapon in the Acts of the Christian Martyrs, Thomas J. Heffernan
2. Arguing from Scripture: The Bible in the Christian/Muslim Encounter in the Middle Ages, Sidney H. Griffith
3. Andrew of St. Victor, Jerome, and the Jews: Biblical Scholarship in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, Frans van Liere
4. Consolation and Confrontation: Jewish and Christian Interpretation of the Prophetic Books, Michael A. Signer
5. The World As Text: The Bible and the Book of Nature in Twelfth-Century Theology, Constant J. Mews
6. William of Auvergne and the Law of the Jews and the Muslims, Lesley Smith
7. Precedents and Paradigms: Juan de Segovia on the Bible, the Church, and the Ottoman Threat, Anne Marie Wolf
8. Challenging the Protestant Paradigm: Bible Reading in Lay and Urban Contexts of the Later Middle Ages, Andrew Gow
9. Religious Dissidence and the Bible in Sixteenth-Century Italy: The Idiosyncratic Bible of Lucia Brocadelli da Narni, E. Ann Matter
10. Apocalypticism and Violence: Aspects of Their Relation in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Bernard McGinn
List of Contributors
Index of Biblical and Qurʾānic References
Index of Persons and Places
Subject Index
Introduction, Thomas E. Burman
1. Nomen sacrum: God’s Name as Shield and Weapon in the Acts of the Christian Martyrs, Thomas J. Heffernan
2. Arguing from Scripture: The Bible in the Christian/Muslim Encounter in the Middle Ages, Sidney H. Griffith
3. Andrew of St. Victor, Jerome, and the Jews: Biblical Scholarship in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, Frans van Liere
4. Consolation and Confrontation: Jewish and Christian Interpretation of the Prophetic Books, Michael A. Signer
5. The World As Text: The Bible and the Book of Nature in Twelfth-Century Theology, Constant J. Mews
6. William of Auvergne and the Law of the Jews and the Muslims, Lesley Smith
7. Precedents and Paradigms: Juan de Segovia on the Bible, the Church, and the Ottoman Threat, Anne Marie Wolf
8. Challenging the Protestant Paradigm: Bible Reading in Lay and Urban Contexts of the Later Middle Ages, Andrew Gow
9. Religious Dissidence and the Bible in Sixteenth-Century Italy: The Idiosyncratic Bible of Lucia Brocadelli da Narni, E. Ann Matter
10. Apocalypticism and Violence: Aspects of Their Relation in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Bernard McGinn
List of Contributors
Index of Biblical and Qurʾānic References
Index of Persons and Places
Subject Index
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