1st Edition

Scholarship, Sacrifice and Subjectivity The Renaissance Bible Today

Edited By Hannah Crawforth, Russ Leo Copyright 2021
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

In 1994, Debora K. Shuger published her field-changing study, The Renaissance Bible : Scholarship, Sacrifice and Subjectivity . Shuger’s book offers a wide-reaching and intellectually ambitious exploration of the centrality of the inter-connected discourses of literature and theology in the period. Throughout, Shuger troubles prevailing assumptions about religion and its purview by expanding... Read more

Introduction: Scholarship, Sacrifice and Subjectivity: The Renaissance Bible Today

Hannah Crawforth and Russ Leo

1. Some Early Citizens of the Respublica Litterarum Sacrarum: Christian Scholars and the Masorah Before 1550

Anthony Grafton

2. William Tyndale and Erasmus on How to Read the Bible: A Newly Discovered Manuscript of the English Enchiridion

Brian Cummings

3. Jean Calvin, Christ’s Despair, and the Reformation Decensus ad Inferos

Russ Leo

4. "A Second Bible": Liturgy and Interpretation in the Expositions of John Boys

Beth Quitslund

5. The Reformation of Hebrew Scripture: Chosen People, Chosen Nations, and Exceptionalism

Achsah Guibbory

Biography

Hannah Crawforth is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at King’s College, London, UK.

Russ Leo is Associate Professor in English at Princeton University, USA.