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The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible

by Theodor Dunkelgrun

  • Hardback
  • 588 pages
  • Publisher: PIMS
  • 2.1 x 2.1 x 2.1 cm

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For historians and scholars of biblical texts

Uncovers the intense clash between philology and faith

Gain deep insight into the birth of modern printing

Discover the dramatic history behind one of the most ambitious and contested printing projects of the Renaissance.

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The Antwerp Polyglot Bible (1568-1573) has long been recognized as one of the most ambitious typographical enterprises of the sixteenth century. Upon completion, it was the most elaborate Bible ever printed, a library of biblical erudition with editions of the ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, and Latin versions together with new scholarly instruments necessary to study and compare them. Yet powerful contemporaries also perceived it as a threat to the Church. The very idea of a polyglot bible, especially one that included the Hebrew Bible and Aramaic Targums of Jewish tradition, ran counter to the Council of Trent's decree that the Latin Vulgate was the only authentic version of Christian Scripture. In the middle of the sixteenth century, biblical philology and Catholic orthodoxy turned onto a frightful course of collision, and the pages of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible formed the force field at their crossroads. The Multiplicity of Scripture is the first book-length study of how the Antwerp Polyglot was made. Combining the history of the book with the history of scholarship and drawing on primary sources from archives and libraries across Europe, it reconstructs the editorial history of Christopher Plantin's masterpiece from within his printing shop. Set in the contexts of fierce biblical controversies in Tridentine Europe and the fraught afterlife of Jewish traditions in post-expulsion Spain, it tells a story of crisis and craftsmanship, of ink-stained proofs in four different alphabets and the extraordinary team of scholars and printers that made this monument of Renaissance printing and scholarly endeavour.

  • Title

    The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible

  • Author

    Theodor Dunkelgrun

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    PIMS

  • Published

    February 2025

  • Weight

    432g

  • Page Count

    588

  • Dimensions

    2.1 x 2.1 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780888442345

  • ISBN-10

    0888442343

  • Eden Code

    6504226