{"product_id":"the-reformation-of-the-literal-erik-lundeen-9780567718792","title":"The Reformation of the Literal: Prophecy and the Senses of Scripture in Early Modern Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erik Lundeen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0567718794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780567718792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e T\u0026amp;T Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Erik Lundeen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46747769438463,"sku":"9780567718792","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e61ee429-bf72-484d-ad0c-9352ee993125.jpg?v=1743584682","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-reformation-of-the-literal-erik-lundeen-9780567718792","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}