Scripture and Pluralism: Reading the Bible in the Religiously Plural Worlds of the Middle Ages and Renaissance / / edited by Thomas Heffernan, Thomas E. Burman.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions ; 123
• Author: University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Medieval and Renaissance Curriculum and Outreach Project. Symposium
• TeilnehmendeR: Burman, Thomas E.,; Heffernan, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2005.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions ; 123.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: "Papers presented at the First Annual Symposium of MARCO, the Medieval and Renaissance Curriculum and Outreach Project, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, February 21-22, 2002."

The Mediterranean and Western-European sphere in the Ancient, Medieval and Early-Modern Periods was a world of complex and deeply rooted religious Pluralism - Jews, various sects of Christians, Muslims, and pagans all lived side by side and interacted regularly. The essays in this volume explore what happened when Christians read the Bible faced with the challenges posed by this religious pluralism. Topics covered include early Christianity's use of the Bible under persecution, Arab-Christian Biblical study within the Islamic World, Jewish-Christian scholarly interaction in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, and the role of late-medieval vernacular editions of the Bible in paving the way for the Reformation. Contributors include: Thomas E. Burman, Andrew Gow, Sidney H. Griffith, Thomas J. Heffernan, Frans van Liere, E. Ann Matter, Bernard McGinn, Constant J. Mews, Michael A. Signer, Lesley Smith, and Anne Marie Wolf.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- Introduction, Thomas E. Burman -- 1. Nomen sacrum: God's Name as Shield and Weapon in the Acts of the Christian Martyrs, Thomas J. Heffernan -- 2. Arguing from Scripture: The Bible in the Christian/Muslim Encounter in the Middle Ages, Sidney H. Griffith -- 3. Andrew of St. Victor, Jerome, and the Jews: Biblical Scholarship in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, Frans van Liere -- 4. Consolation and Confrontation: Jewish and Christian Interpretation of the Prophetic Books, Michael A. Signer -- 5. The World As Text: The Bible and the Book of Nature in Twelfth-Century Theology, Constant J. Mews -- 6. William of Auvergne and the Law of the Jews and the Muslims, Lesley Smith -- 7. Precedents and Paradigms: Juan de Segovia on the Bible, the Church, and the Ottoman Threat, Anne Marie Wolf -- 8. Challenging the Protestant Paradigm: Bible Reading in Lay and Urban Contexts of the Later Middle Ages, Andrew Gow -- 9. Religious Dissidence and the Bible in Sixteenth-Century Italy: The Idiosyncratic Bible of Lucia Brocadelli da Narni, E. Ann Matter -- 10. Apocalypticism and Violence: Aspects of Their Relation in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Bernard McGinn -- List of Contributors -- Index of Biblical and Qurʾānic References -- Index of Persons and Places -- Subject Index.