{"product_id":"9780567718792","title":"The Reformation of the Literal : Prophecy and the Senses of Scripture in Early Modern Europe (T\u0026t Clark Studies in Historical Theology)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to read the Bible 'literally'? Recent debates on the Protestant reformers have focused on whether they were stridently literal interpreters or maintained a place for allegorical readings. However, in this nuanced book, Lundeen argues that the question of what in fact constituted the Bible's literal sense was also a key question in early modern debates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no clean binary of literal versus allegorical; instead, reformers subtly produced a variety of competing literalisms. There was not one literal sense in the Reformation, but many.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo make this case, Lundeen comparatively analyzes Reformation-era commentaries on the prophet Isaiah. He further highlights the little-known but influential works of the Basel reformer Johannes Oecolampadius, who was the first Christian to publish commentaries on most of the biblical prophets in the sixteenth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy placing Oecolampadius in conversation with a host of his better-known Christian and Jewish predecessors and contemporaries, this book reframes a central aspect of Reformation-era biblical exegesis, while also providing a constructive resource for those who seek to read the Bible's ancient prophets as Christian scripture today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"T.\u0026 T.Clark Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45408294142031,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":4025.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9780567718792","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}