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 California 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 modern 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.