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 The book is a comparative study, drawing from a variety of unpublished commentaries as well as more familiar works by Nicholas of Lyra, John Wyclif, Jean Gerson, Denys the Carthusian, Wendelin Steinbach, Desiderius Erasmus, Philip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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521810463
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95238589
Product Key Features
Book Title
Biblical Poetics before Humanism and Reformation
Author
Christopher Ocker
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Religious History, Christianity
Publication Year
2002
Number of Pages
282 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
236mm
Item Width
159mm
Item Weight
590g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Christopher Ocker
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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