Full Description
During the Reformation of the sixteenth century, the role of the Bible in both Protestant and Roman Catholic branches of western Christianity was vital and complex. Drawing on new technologies such as movable type, this period saw extraordinary energy and enterprise put into the translation, interpretation, and publication of Christianity's sacred text. As a result, an increasingly broad section of the population, from scholars and clergy to laity and children, came to be involved in the reception of the Bible and its position in early modern religious expression. The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation provides readers with a deeper understanding of the expansive history of the Bible as it was shaped, shared, and received across Christian traditions. Chapters explore the biblical canon, translation and print, the development of Reformation hermeneutics, the history of Bible commentators, and exegesis relating to key texts and theological themes of Reformation writing and discourse. Engaging the subject broadly, intricately, and robustly, the expertise of over fifty leading experts illuminates the early modern Bible's composition and position as scripture and, from the Renaissance era on, as a printed book. By including the contributions of radical reformers, Catholics, and women scholars, the Handbook presents a deep and wide-ranging account of the importance of the Bible's reach and authority among all western Christians.
Contents
Bruce Gordon: Foreword
Jennifer Powell McNutt and Herman J. Selderhuis: Introduction
Part One: The Reformation and the Biblical Canon
1: Gerald Bray: The Protestant Reformation on the Biblical Canon and the Apocrypha
2: Michael Graves: Reformers and the Biblia Hebraica
3: Stephen Burnett: Christian Hebraism
4: Luke Murray: Roman Catholicism and the Biblical Canon
Part Two: Reformation Bibles in Translation and Print
5: Erika Rummel: Cardinal Cisneros, Desiderius Erasmus, and the Polyglot Bible
6: Matthew McLean: The Latin Bible from the Late Middle Ages to Junius-Tremellius
7: Beth Allison Barr and Elizabeth Marvel: The English Bible Before the Reformation
8: Diana Severance: Printing Bibles during the Reformation
9: Volker Leppin: The German Bible from Martin Luther to Johann Eck
10: Mack P. Holt: Marginalia and the Reception of French Bibles
11: David J. Davis: The Visual Culture of Reformation Bibles
12: Marion Keuchen: Reformation Children's Bibles from Martin Luther to Wendelin Rihel
13: Pál Ács: Translating the Hungarian Protestant Bible
14: David D. Daniels III: The Ethiopic Bible and the Reformation in Europe
15: Wim François: Vernacular Bible Reading and Translation in the Confessional Era (c. 1550-1750)
Part Three: The Development of Reformation Biblical Hermeneutics
16: Lesley Smith: The Medieval Four Senses of Scripture and Nicholas of Lyra's Literal Interpretation of the Bible
17: Annet den Haan: Humanist Textual Criticism and Lorenzo Valla's Annotationes
18: Anna Marie Johnson: The Supremacy of Scripture and Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt
19: Christopher Boyd Brown: Martin Luther's Biblical Hermeneutics
20: Peter Opitz: Huldrych Zwingli and the Zurich Reformation on Biblical Authority and Translation
21: Rady Roldán-Figueroa: Roman Catholic Exegesis from the Spirituali to the Jesuits
22: Luka Ili'c: The Scriptural Understanding of Matthias Flacius Illyricus
23: Ellie Gebarowski-Shafer: Contested Hermeneutics between William Fulke and the Rhemish Testament
24: Alastair Hamilton: Biblical Authority and the Radical Reformation
Part Four: Reformation Bible Commentators
25: Christoph Schönau: Jacques LeFèvre d'Etaples (c.1460-1536)
26: Claus Arnold: Jacob Thomas de Vio Cajetan (1464-1534)
27: Stephen Brett Eccher: Balthasar Hubmaier (1480-1528)
28: Diane M. Poythress, Ph.D.: Johannes Oecolampadius (1482-1531)
29: Martin J. Lohrmann: Johannes Bugenhagen (1485-1558)
30: Christopher Martinuzzi: Thomas Müntzer (1489-1525)
31: Sean A. Otto: Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)
32: Annie Noblesse-Rocher: Martin Bucer (1491-1551)
33: Tibor Fabiny: William Tyndale (c1494-1536)
34: G. Sujin Pak: Marie Dentière (1495-1561)
35: Timothy J. Wengert: Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560)
36: Jordan J. Ballor: Wolfgang Musculus (1497-1563)
37: Elsie Anne McKee: Katharina Schütz Zell (c1498-1562)
38: Rebecca A. Giselbrecht: Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575)
39: R. Ward Holder: John Calvin (1509-1564)
40: Kirk Summers: Theodore Beza (1519-1605)
Part Five: Reformation Exegesis and Theology of Key Texts and Themes
41: Euan Cameron: Celibacy and Marriage (Gen. 2)
42: Hywel Clifford: The Decalogue during the Reformation (Exod. 34:28; Deut. 10:4)
43: Paul Avis: Papacy and Ecclesiastical Authority (Matt. 16:18-19; John 20:23, 21:17)
44: Amy Nelson Burnett: The Eucharist (John 6; 1 Cor. 10-11)
45: Kirsi Stjerna: Baptism (Matt. 28:19-20; Mark 16:15-16)
46: Tobias Jammerthal: Righteousness (Rom. 1:17)
47: Gwenfair Walters Adams: Faith (Rom. 3:28, 10:17)
48: Allison Brown, Baylor University: Church and State (Rom. 13)
49: Pieter Rouwendal: Predestination
50: Kenneth J. Woo: Trinity (Heb. 1:3; John 1)
