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Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 437–460.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the message of charity or some corollary of it is not evident on the
surface.”3 That is, biblical material — or, more specifically, a reductive view
of early Christian exegesis as consistently pointing to a unified, caritative
meaning of scripture — authorizes the allegorical interpretation...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 87–116.
Published: 01 January 2023
..., among historians of scholarship, he is famous primarily for his Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae (1658 – 78), an unprecedentedly thorough application of Hebrew scholarship to New Testament exegesis, now recognized as a milestone of biblical criticism. This article brings these facets of Lightfoot's legacy...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 55–85.
Published: 01 January 2023
... Jewish authorities as more active, and less mediated, participants in early modern debate. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 English Reformation Hebrew scholarship Jewish sources and traditions biblical exegesis ecclesiastical politics When did...
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Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (2): 333–363.
Published: 01 May 2012
... elsewhere in medieval commentary, especially
in biblical exegesis, might profitably be understood. Difference is an inevi-
table obstacle to anyone who would relate things human and divine, but
Julian renders it productive. Making sense of her revelations and the dis-
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Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 117–147.
Published: 01 January 2023
... “attempt to show that far from being a mere ancillary to biblical exegesis, Arabic literature . . . was worthy of study in its own right.” 7 But to equate comparative philology with the view of Arabic as “a mere ancillary to biblical exegesis” is to understate the continuing centrality of the Bible...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 467–492.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to the theorization of authorial intention and the role it should play in interpretation of the most authoritative texts of the time. Gundissalinus's use of the metaphor of marrow and husk strikingly inverts the commonplace notion in early medieval biblical exegesis that the true marrow of the text...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (2): 215–239.
Published: 01 May 2003
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will be condemned.
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This small example of biblical exegesis is representative, mutatis
mutandis, not only of more than a millennium of biblical exegesis, but also
of a very long tradition of neo-Platonic interpretation of classical poetry.4...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 461–486.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., they may rely on learned, devout guides to help unfold its revelations.
While the layout of the Glossed Gospels may make biblical exegesis
accessible to lay readers (an aspiration named in most prologues), annota-
tions in some manuscripts suggest a clerical audience as well.62 In multiple...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (2): 271–303.
Published: 01 May 2007
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the Father in a cowl and golden crown” (LW 37:55). Again, the question is
one of exegesis. Luther’s commitment to taking scripture literally whenever
possible did not commit him to denying that scripture contains figures. He
argues that “the right hand of God” is not a place but a biblical locution...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 225–259.
Published: 01 May 2023
... reading aids were highly successful and enjoyed transmission longevity across a range of commentaries on classical poems, in addition to chronicles, biblical commentaries, and encyclopedias. Manuscript annotators, however, developed geographical diagrams especially for classical poems, not only...
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Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 57–78.
Published: 01 January 2001
.... The artist deployed
black-and-white color symbolism, with deep roots in the social mores of late
Roman society, to provide a visual exegesis on the Exodus story. The illus-
tration of the tenth plague shows a transitional moment where the repre-
sentation...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 519–543.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to an emotion. Among Christian readers, this was understood to be especially true of the Bible. According to Giles of Rome (ca. 1245–1316), “Love is the ultimate goal of all holy scripture,” and he goes on to explain of biblical exegesis that “this science is described as promoting love of and affection for God...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (3): 443–444.
Published: 01 September 2001
... in their versions of Christianity, equally important but very dif-
ferent. Perhaps, we wondered, the shared story of Abraham and Isaac would
provide an illuminating entry into profound transformations of Chris-
tianity and its subjects in this domain. How did what Protestant cultures
make of this biblical story...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (3): 487–516.
Published: 01 September 2017
... is introduced by Wil-
liam Whittingham, who stresses that the printing of this extended biblical
exegesis is for “not onely we here present,” but so that “our bretherne in
England and other places might be persuaded in the trueth of that doctrine
concerninge obedience to the magistrat.”50 Goodman’s book...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2010
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cism (Davis); exegesis and exemplarity (Fulton); and the practice and con-
cept of playing itself (Bishop).
It is possible to claim that Shakespeare is premodern in all of the
preceding idioms, and perhaps even all at once. The following essays offer
meditations on the role of Shakespeare...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 119–147.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Thomas Fulton The accession of James I triggered an outpouring of religious literature, including Shakespeare's Measure for Measure , which was performed before a royal audience on December 26, 1604. With over thirty biblical allusions and a conspicuously scriptural title, Shakespeare's most...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2023
... were pivotal in the evolution of Cranmer's eucharistic theology. 49 Martyr also brought with him a familiarity with medieval Jewish exegesis, especially Rashi's commentary. 50 When Mary I came to the throne, Protestant exiles continued to advance their study of non-Latinate sources. William...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 197–228.
Published: 01 May 2008
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.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/index.html (10 Dec. 2007).
50 Chism, Alliterative Revivals, 187. Further confirmation of this crucial point can be
found in Suzanne M. Yeager, “The Siege of Jerusalem and Biblical Exegesis: Writing
about Romans in Fourteenth-Century England,” Chaucer Review 39 (2004): 70–102...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 593–615.
Published: 01 September 2024
... in disagreement with her husband over her ability to distribute even small, “merciful relief” is cut off from applying her own interpretive skills to either biblical text or the request of a “stranger” at the door. These aspects of the biblical story were not lost on late Tudor and early Stuart pastoral...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
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nation, and interrelatedly between language and meaning. Practicing this
preputial rhetorical theory, Bernard’s homily shuttles between lection and
gloss — he abbreviates and amplifies, dilating scripture through exegesis and
meanwhile reducing its essence to the Logos — a form that effects...
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