The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, Volume 29)

Berkeley / Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. First paperback printing. Pencil underlining on first two pages only, ink owner information on front flyleaf. 1998 Trade Paperback. xv, 297 pp. 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.