Reformation Hermeneutics and Literary Language in Early Modern England : ...

Reformation Hermeneutics and Literary Language in Early Modern EnglandFaith in the Language\nAuthor(s): Jamie H. Ferguson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG\nISBN-13: 9783030817947, 978-3030817947\nSynopsis\nThe expressive and literary capacities of post-Reformation English were largely shaped in response to the [url] in the Languageexamines the convergence of biblical interpretation and English literature, from William Tyndale to John Donne, and argues that the groundwork for a newly authoritative literary tradition in early modern England is laid in the discourse of biblical hermeneutics. The period [tel] witnessed a proliferation of English biblical versions, provoking a century-long debate about how and whether the Bible should be rendered in [url] public, indeed institutionalaccounts of biblical English changed the language: questions about the relation between Scripture and exegetical tradition that.