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Biblical Poetics Before Humanism And Reformation

by Christopher Ocker (san Francisco Theological Seminary)

  • Hardback
  • 282 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

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For scholars and enthusiasts of biblical history

Examines shifts in biblical interpretation over centuries

You will gain insights into scripture's evolving meanings

This book explores biblical interpretation in the late Middle Ages.

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Biblical Poetics Before Humanism and Reformation is a study of the interpretation of the Bible in the late Middle Ages. Scholastic theologians developed a distinct attitude toward textual meaning in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries which departed significantly from earlier trends. Their attitude tended to erode the distinction, emphasized by the scholars of St Victor in the twelfth century, between literal and spiritual senses of scripture. Christopher Ocker argues that interpreters developed a biblical poetics very similar to that cultivated and promoted by Protestants in the sixteenth century, which was reinforced by the adaptation of humanist rhetoric to Bible reading after Lorenzo Valla. The book is a comparative study, drawing from a variety of unpublished commentaries as well as more familiar works by Nicholas of Lyra, John Wyclif, Jean Gerson, Denys the Carthusian, Wendelin Steinbach, Desiderius Erasmus, Philip Melanchthon, and John Calvin.
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  • Author

    Christopher Ocker (san Francisco Theological Seminary)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    April 2002

  • Weight

    568g

  • Page Count

    282

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521810463

  • ISBN-10

    0521810469

  • Eden Code

    1007729

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