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The book's title alludes to Gregory the Great's famous metaphor in his 'Moralia in Job': The Bible is like a stream, broad and deep, shallow enough for the lamb to go wading, but deep enough for the elephant to swim. Gregory's intention was to show that the Bible contains several levels of instruction, so that it is fully accessible to both the lettered and the unlettered. This powerful metaphor has been applied and re-applied in various Christian traditions, and has been given expression in many and various ways. In this book, it is understood as a reference to the diverse biblical genres, vernacular and scholarly, as well as literary and pictorial, illustrating the wide reception of the Bible throughout history, both among the educated and uneducated. The articles included in this volume deal with diverse aspects of the history of the Church and theology, literary history, art history, and book history, but above all give testimony to the broad reception of the Bible in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era.

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Peeters
Language
English
Pages
406

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Subjects
Bible, Versions, Theologie, Criticism, interpretation, Exegetik, Translating, Bibellektüre, Laie, Congresses, Bibeln, Theologe, History, Aufsatzsammlung, Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc., Bible, versions, Bible, translating
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Modern period, 1500-, Middle Ages, 600-1500

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Table of Contents

Targeting the masses : the Delft Bible (1477) as printed product -- Mart van Duijn
"Looking in the mirror of the Scriptures" : reading the Bible in medieval Italy -- Sabrina Corbellini
Reading the penitential Psalms in late fifteenth-century Florence : the case of Giovanni Caroli and a note on Giovanni Pico della Mirandola -- Amos Edelheit
Fund eines mittelalterlichen "Lutherpsalters" : der mittelniederländische Philadelphia-Psalter (ca. 1485) und die frühmodernen niederländischen Bibeldrucke -- Youri Desplenter
Lutherans in the garden of Eden : the reform of Adam and Eve -- Kathleen Crowther
Martin Luther's conception of the serpent possessed by the devil (Gen 3) and the antecedent tradition -- Jussi Koivisto
Bible, image, artist : the Bible of Hans Plock -- Maria Deiters
"That the reder might once swimme without a corke" : George Joye's translation strategy in his biblical translations -- Gergely Juhász
Coram imperatore : the publication of Francisco de Enzinas's Spanish New Testament (1543) -- Victoria Christman
Fadrique Furió Ceriol, Giovanni de Bononia et la traduction de la Bible en langue vernaculaire : analyse du Bononia (1556) -- Els Agten
"U geloove heeft u gesont gemaeckt" = "Thy faith has made thee whole" : the healing of the haemorrhoissa in 16th and 17th-century Bible illustrations -- Liesbet Kusters
A blessing of peace to the humble, vigilant, and discerning : the annunciation to the shepherds in the Netherlands around 1600 -- James Clifton
"Augustinian" Bible exegesis in early seventeenth century Louvain : the case of Jacob Jansonius' digression on John 12,39-40 -- Wim François
"A work which generations had hoped for" : the first translation into Irish of the New Testament -- Fearghus Ó Fearghail.

Edition Notes

Includes papers presented at two meetings of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, held in Geneva, Switzerland, in May, 2009, and in Montréal, Québec, in October 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Twelve contributions in English, 1 in French, and 1 in German.

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Leuven, Walpole, MA
Series
Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium -- 257, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium -- 257.
Other Titles
Bible for the laity and theologians in the late medieval and early modern era

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
220.609
Library of Congress
BS500 .W28 2012, BS500.W28 2012

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Pagination
xv, 406 pages
Number of pages
406

ID Numbers

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OL28390278M
ISBN 10
9042927550
ISBN 13
9789042927551
LCCN
2015431146
OCLC/WorldCat
820786711

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