The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation

During the Reformation of the sixteenth century, the role of the Bible in both Protestant and Roman Catholic branches of western Christianity was vital and complex. Drawing on new technologies such as movable type, this period saw extraordinary energy and enterprise put into the translation, interpretation, and publication of Christianity's sacred text. As a result, an increasingly broad section of the population, from scholars and clergy to laity and children, came to be involved in the reception of the Bible and its position in early modern religious expression. The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation provides readers with a deeper understanding of the expansive history of the Bible as it was shaped, shared, and received across Christian traditions. Chapters explore the biblical canon, translation and print, the development of Reformation hermeneutics, the history of Bible commentators, and exegesis relating to key texts and theological themes of Reformation writing and discourse. Engaging the subject broadly, intricately, and robustly, the expertise of over fifty leading experts illuminates the early modern Bible's composition and position as scripture and, from the Renaissance era on, as a printed book. By including the contributions of radical reformers, Catholics, and women scholars, the Handbook presents a deep and wide-ranging account of the importance of the Bible's reach and authority among all western Christians.

Jennifer Powell McNutt is Franklin S. Dyrness Chair in Biblical and Theological Studies at Wheaton College, where she is Professor of Theology and History of Christianity. She received her PhD in History from the University of St Andrews' Reformation Studies Institute. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and serves as President of the Calvin Studies Society. Her research focuses on the history of Christianity and theology with expertise in Reformation Studies, John Calvin, and the French Bible. She is the author of the award-winning Calvin Meets Voltaire: The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment, 1685-1798 (Ashgate, 2014). Herman J.Selderhuis is Professor of Church History and Church Law at the Theological University Apeldoorn. He is director of the Refo500 Foundation, president of the Reformation Research Consortium (REFORC), president of the European Academy of Religion (EuARe), editor-in-chief of several international, academic book series, board member of several international academic organizations and of various European research projects. He is an expert on the theology and history of the Reformation and on protestant church law, areas in which he has published several books and articles.

- Foreword - Introduction - Part One: The Reformation and the Biblical Canon - 1: Gerald Bray: The Protestant Reformation on the Biblical Canon and the Apocrypha - 2: Michael Graves: Reformers and the Biblia Hebraica - 3: Stephen Burnett: Christian Hebraism - 4: Luke Murray: Roman Catholicism and the Biblical Canon - Part Two: Reformation Bibles in Translation and Print - 5: Erika Rummel: Cardinal Cisneros, Desiderius Erasmus, and the Polyglot Bible - 6: Matthew McLean: The Latin Bible from the Late Middle Ages to Junius-Tremellius - 7: Beth Allison Barr and Elizabeth Marvel: The English Bible Before the Reformation - 8: Diana Severance: Printing Bibles during the Reformation - 9: Volker Leppin: The German Bible from Martin Luther to Johann Eck - 10: Mack P. Holt: Marginalia and the Reception of French Bibles - 11: David J. Davis: The Visual Culture of Reformation Bibles - 12: Marion Keuchen: Reformation Children's Bibles from Martin Luther to Wendelin Rihel - 13: Pál Ács: Translating the Hungarian Protestant Bible - 14: David D. Daniels III: The Ethiopic Bible and the Reformation in Europe - 15: Wim François: Vernacular Bible Reading and Translation in the Confessional Era (c. 1550-1750) - Part Three: The Development of Reformation Biblical Hermeneutics - 16: Lesley Smith: The Medieval Four Senses of Scripture and Nicholas of Lyra's Literal Interpretation of the Bible - 17: Annet den Haan: Humanist Textual Criticism and Lorenzo Valla's Annotationes - 18: Anna Marie Johnson: The Supremacy of Scripture and Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt - 19: Christopher Boyd Brown: Martin Luther's Biblical Hermeneutics - 20: Peter Opitz: Huldrych Zwingli and the Zurich Reformation on Biblical Authority and Translation - 21: Rady Roldán-Figueroa: Roman Catholic Exegesis from the Spirituali to the Jesuits - 22: Luka Ilic: The Scriptural Understanding of Matthias Flacius Illyricus - 23: Ellie Gebarowski-Shafer: Contested Hermeneutics between William Fulke and the Rhemish Testament - 24: Alastair Hamilton: Biblical Authority and the Radical Reformation - Part Four: Reformation Bible Commentators - 25: Christoph Schönau: Jacques LeFèvre d'Etaples (c.1460-1536) - 26: Claus Arnold: Jacob Thomas de Vio Cajetan (1464-1534) - 27: Stephen Brett Eccher: Balthasar Hubmaier (1480-1528) - 28: Diane M. Poythress, Ph.D.: Johannes Oecolampadius (1482-1531) - 29: Martin J. Lohrmann: Johannes Bugenhagen (1485-1558) - 30: Christopher Martinuzzi: Thomas Müntzer (1489-1525) - 31: Sean A. Otto: Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) - 32: Annie Noblesse-Rocher: Martin Bucer (1491-1551) - 33: Tibor Fabiny: William Tyndale (c1494-1536) - 34: G. Sujin Pak: Marie Dentière (1495-1561) - 35: Timothy J. Wengert: Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) - 36: Jordan J. Ballor: Wolfgang Musculus (1497-1563) - 37: Elsie Anne McKee: Katharina Schütz Zell (c1498-1562) - 38: Rebecca A. Giselbrecht: Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575) - 39: R. Ward Holder: John Calvin (1509-1564) - 40: Kirk Summers: Theodore Beza (1519-1605) - Part Five: Reformation Exegesis and Theology of Key Texts and Themes - 41: Euan Cameron: Celibacy and Marriage (Gen. 2) - 42: Hywel Clifford: The Decalogue during the Reformation (Exod. 34:28; Deut. 10:4) - 43: Paul Avis: Papacy and Ecclesiastical Authority (Matt. 16:18-19; John 20:23, 21:17) - 44: Amy Nelson Burnett: The Eucharist (John 6; 1 Cor. 10-11) - 45: Kirsi Stjerna: Baptism (Matt. 28:19-20; Mark 16:15-16) - 46: Tobias Jammerthal: Righteousness (Rom. 1:17) - 47: Gwenfair Walters Adams: Faith (Rom. 3:28, 10:17) - 48: Allison Brown, Baylor University: Church and State (Rom. 13) - 49: Pieter Rouwendal: Predestination - 50: Kenneth J. Woo: Trinity (Heb. 1:3; John 1)