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allegory
anthropology
Author_Debora Shuger
Bible
Biblical interpretation
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culture
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gender
history
Passion
psychology
Renaissance
selfhood
violence
Product details
- ISBN 9781481314862
- Weight: 575g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Baylor University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1998 by the University of California Press, The Renaissance Bible skillfully navigates the immense but neglected materials spanning the gap between medieval biblical scholarship and the rise of Higher Criticism. Debora Kuller Shuger powerfully demonstrates the disciplinary fusion of Renaissance biblical scholarship—in which the Bible remained the primary locus for cultural, anthropological, and psychological reflection—against modern historians' penchant for bracketing all things religious when reimagining the Renaissance world. Despite the considerable ground she covers and the interdisciplinary nature of her subject, Shuger never roves. Her penetrating focus casts remarkable light on her subject, especially Renaissance writers' use of the Passion. Their concerns emerge as surprisingly contemporary, inviting the reader to reflect on such relevant topics as selfhood, violence, and gender.
Debora Kuller Shuger is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has written numerous books, including Censorship and Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England (2006) and Political Theologies in Shakespeare's England (2001). She lives in the greater Los Angeles area.
