Scripture and Pluralism: Reading the Bible in the Religiously Plural Worlds of the Middle Ages and Renaissance /

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

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 wha...

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Superior document:Studies in the History of Christian Traditions ; 123
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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."
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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.

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