Description
This collection of nine essays, with an introduction by Richard Griffiths, examines some of the broad themes relating to the way in which the reading, translation and interpretation of the Bible in the Renaissance could serve the specific and often practical aims of those involved. Moving from humanist issues concerned with the nature of the sacred texts and methods for interpreting them, the volume examines the uses of the Bible in different contexts, and looks at the social, political and religious impact of its translations in the sixteenth century.
Table of Contents
Contents: Preface; Introduction, Richard Griffiths; The ark and the temple in Savonarola’s teaching (Winter 1494), Michael O’Connor; Erasmus and the psalms, Michael J. Heath; Martin Luther’s Bible translation in its German and European context, John L. Flood; A neglected facet of Cardinal Cajetan: biblical reform in high Renaissance Rome, Michael O’Connor; Strategies of biblical exemplarity in Gil Vicente, Paulo Cardoso Pereira; Tyndale, Henry Wansbrough; English fears of social disintegration and modes of control 1533-1611, Vincent Strudwick; The Bible and Protestant inculturation in the Homilies of the Church of England, Luc Borot; The Welsh Bible and Renaissance learning, Ceri Davies; Index.
