Shaping the Bible in the Reformation ─ Books, Scholars and Their Readers in the Sixteenth Century

Historians, church historians, and scholars of religion explore some of the ways the scholarship and use, physical form and presentation, and languages and interpretations of the Bible were altered to reflect other changes in early modern Europe. Among their topics are illustrations in early printed Latin Bibles in the Low Countries (1477-1553), hermeneutics and exegesis in the early eucharistic controversy, Theodor Bibliander's Oration on Isaiah (1532) and Commentary on Nahum (1534), global Calvinism in the maps in the English Geneva Bible, and Augustine and the golden age of biblical scholarship in Louvain (1550-1650). Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Bruce Gordon is the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School. He is the author and editor of a number of books on the European Reformation, including (with Peter Marshall) The Place of the Dead. Death and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2000), The Swiss Reformation (Manchester, 2002) and (with Emidio Campi) Architect of Reformation. An Introduction to Heinrich Bullinger, 1504-1575 (Baker Academic, 2004). His most recent book is Calvin, published by Yale University Press in 2009.Matthew McLean is Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. He works on religion, science and the culture of humanism in the early modern period. His first book, The Cosmographia of Sebastian Munster. Describing the World in the Reformation was published in 2007 by Ashgate. He is presently working on the AHRC Protestant Latin Bible Project.