Shaping the Bible in the Reformation
Books, Scholars and Their Readers in the Sixteenth Century
Biographical note
Bruce Gordon is the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School. He is the author and editor of a number of books on the European Reformation, including (with Peter Marshall) The Place of the Dead. Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2000), The Swiss Reformation (Manchester, 2002) and (with Emidio Campi) Architect of Reformation. An Introduction to Heinrich Bullinger, 1504-1575 (Baker Academic, 2004). His most recent book is Calvin, published by Yale University Press in 2009.
Matthew McLean is Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. He works on religion, science and the culture of humanism in the early modern period. His first book, The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster. Describing the World in the Reformation was published in 2007 by Ashgate. He is presently working on the AHRC Protestant Latin Bible Project.
Matthew McLean is Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. He works on religion, science and the culture of humanism in the early modern period. His first book, The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster. Describing the World in the Reformation was published in 2007 by Ashgate. He is presently working on the AHRC Protestant Latin Bible Project.
Readership
Scholars and students interested in early modern religious and intellectual history, biblical interpretation and translation, the Reformation and the history of the Book.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Matthew McLean
Instructing the Soul, Feeding the Spirit and Awakening the Passion: Holy Writ and Lay Readers in Medieval Europe
Sabrina Corbellini
Illustrations in Early Printed Latin Bibles in the Low Countries (1477-1553)
August den Hollander
The Strange Career of the Biblia Rabbinica among Christian Hebraists, 1517-1620
Stephen G. Burnett
Hermeneutics and Exegesis in the Early Eucharistic Controversy
Amy Nelson Burnett
‘Christo testimonium reddunt omnes scripturae’: Theodor Bibliander’s Oration on Isaiah (1532) and Commentary on Nahum (1534)
Bruce Gordon
Moses, Plato and Flavius Josephus. Castellio’s Conceptions of Sacred and Profane in his Latin Versions of the Bible
Irena Backus
Latin Bible Translations in the Protestant Reformation: Historical Contexts, Philological Justifijication, and the Impact of Classical Rhetoric on the Conception of Translation Methods
Josef Eskhult
Global Calvinism: The Maps in the English Geneva Bible
Justine Walden
“Epitome of the Old Testament, Mirror of God’s Grace, and Complete Anatomy of Man”: Immanuel Tremellius and the Psalms
Kenneth Austin
Augustine and the Golden Age of Biblical Scholarship in Louvain (1550-1650)
Wim François
Looking Backwards: The Protestant Latin Bible in the Eyes of Johannes Piscator and Abraham Calov
Mark W. Elliott
Index
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Matthew McLean
Instructing the Soul, Feeding the Spirit and Awakening the Passion: Holy Writ and Lay Readers in Medieval Europe
Sabrina Corbellini
Illustrations in Early Printed Latin Bibles in the Low Countries (1477-1553)
August den Hollander
The Strange Career of the Biblia Rabbinica among Christian Hebraists, 1517-1620
Stephen G. Burnett
Hermeneutics and Exegesis in the Early Eucharistic Controversy
Amy Nelson Burnett
‘Christo testimonium reddunt omnes scripturae’: Theodor Bibliander’s Oration on Isaiah (1532) and Commentary on Nahum (1534)
Bruce Gordon
Moses, Plato and Flavius Josephus. Castellio’s Conceptions of Sacred and Profane in his Latin Versions of the Bible
Irena Backus
Latin Bible Translations in the Protestant Reformation: Historical Contexts, Philological Justifijication, and the Impact of Classical Rhetoric on the Conception of Translation Methods
Josef Eskhult
Global Calvinism: The Maps in the English Geneva Bible
Justine Walden
“Epitome of the Old Testament, Mirror of God’s Grace, and Complete Anatomy of Man”: Immanuel Tremellius and the Psalms
Kenneth Austin
Augustine and the Golden Age of Biblical Scholarship in Louvain (1550-1650)
Wim François
Looking Backwards: The Protestant Latin Bible in the Eyes of Johannes Piscator and Abraham Calov
Mark W. Elliott
Index
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