Biblical Poetics Before Humanism and Reformation

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-521-08921-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 281 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

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 The book is a comparative study, drawing from a variety of unpublished commentaries as well as more familiar works by Nicholas of Lyra, John Wyclif, Jean Gerson, Denys the Carthusian, Wendelin Steinbach, Desiderius Erasmus, Philip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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ocker, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Medieval exegesis; 2. Signification; 3. Rhetoric; 4. Divine speech; 5. Reformation; Conclusion; Appendix: Selections from commentaries.

Über Autor(innen)

Ocker, Christopher
Christopher Ocker is Associate Professor of History at the San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley.