The Bible As Book: The Reformation

by O'Sullivan, Orlaith; Herron, Ellen N.

• ISBN13: 9781584560258
• ISBN10: 1584560258
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Oak Knoll Pr

Summary

The Reformation period was one of crisis and innovation in society. This work brings together 12 new essays which examine the complex history of the Bible during this period. Authored by some of the most respected specialists in the field.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
List of Illustrations	ix
Preface	xi
Orlaith O'Sullivan
Introduction	1	(8)
Orlaith O'Sullivan
Equivalence or Power? Authority and Reformation Bible Translation	9	(16)
Richard Duerden
The Bible Translations of George Joye	25	(14)
Orlaith O'Sullivan
William Tyndale, the English Bible, and the English Language	39	(12)
David Daniell
John Knox's Bible	51	(14)
David Wright
The Vulgate as Reformation Bible: the Sonnet Sequence of Anne Lock	65	(24)
Susan M. Felch
The 1535 Coverdale Bible and its Antwerp Origins	89	(14)
Guido Latre
Martin Luther and Paul's Epistle to the Romans	103	(12)
William S. Campbell
`Without great effort, and with pleasure': Sixteenth-Century Genevan Bibles and Reading Practices	115	(8)
Francis Higman
`The Law and the Gospel': the Evolution of an Evangelical Pictorial Theme in the Bibles of the Reformation	123	(14)
Andrew Pettegree
Politics and Polemics in English and German Bible Illustrations	137	(8)
Tatiana C. String
The Revelation and Early English Colonial Ventures	145	(12)
Andrew Hadfield
Imagining Translation Committees at Work: the King James and the Revised Versions	157	(12)
David Norton
Bibliography	169	(11)
Index	180