The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity

The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics)
by Debora Kuller Shuger

Publisher: University of Califoia Press
Date: 1998-02-10

ISBN-10: 0520213874

ISBN-13: 9780520213876

Language: English

Pages: 314
Description:
This is the first book on the Renaissance Bible by an Anglo-American scholar in nearly fifty years. Not confined to a history of exegesis, it is instead a study of Renaissance culture–a culture whose central text was the Bible. Shuger explores, among other topics, the links between late medieval Christology and early mode subjectivity; religious eroticism and the origins of the sexualized body; the transformation of humanist philology into comparative religion; and the representation of daughter-sacrifice and female erotic desire.