David H. Price, Professor Emeritus at Vanderbilt University, has written extensively on a broad range of topics, including Renaissance visual art, Christian-Jewish relations, religious toleration, the history of the Bible, humanism, and the Reformation.He is also the author of Defending Judaism: Jewish Writing and Religious Toleration in Early Modern Europe, Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books, and Albrecht Dürer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith.

Price deserves great credit for this lavishly documented study. His various audiences will appreciate different parts of the book. Scholars of the Bible and the history of its consequences will welcome his decentering of the biblical text and the written and oral media usually studied for its interpretation (commentaries, sermons, and theological tracts).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments 1. In the Beginning Was the Image: Art and the Renaissance of the Bible2. The Artist as Biblical Humanist3. The Artist as Reformer4. Dürer's Reformation: Art and Politics of Biblicism5. Word Made Image: Cranach's Biblical Iconography6. Holbein and the Art of the Heterogeneous Bible 7. Epilogue: For the God-Fearing and the Art-Loving NotesBibliography Index

David H. Price, Professor Emeritus at Vanderbilt University, has written extensively on a broad range of topics, including Renaissance visual art, Christian-Jewish relations, religious toleration, the history of the Bible, humanism, and the Reformation.He is also the author of Defending Judaism: Jewish Writing and Religious Toleration in Early Modern Europe, Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books, and Albrecht Dürer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith.

Price deserves great credit for this lavishly documented study. His various audiences will appreciate different parts of the book. Scholars of the Bible and the history of its consequences will welcome his decentering of the biblical text and the written and oral media usually studied for its interpretation (commentaries, sermons, and theological tracts).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments 1. In the Beginning Was the Image: Art and the Renaissance of the Bible2. The Artist as Biblical Humanist3. The Artist as Reformer4. Dürer's Reformation: Art and Politics of Biblicism5. Word Made Image: Cranach's Biblical Iconography6. Holbein and the Art of the Heterogeneous Bible 7. Epilogue: For the God-Fearing and the Art-Loving NotesBibliography Index

David H. Price, Professor Emeritus at Vanderbilt University, has written extensively on a broad range of topics, including Renaissance visual art, Christian-Jewish relations, religious toleration, the history of the Bible, humanism, and the Reformation.He is also the author of Defending Judaism: Jewish Writing and Religious Toleration in Early Modern Europe, Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books, and Albrecht Dürer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith.

Price deserves great credit for this lavishly documented study. His various audiences will appreciate different parts of the book. Scholars of the Bible and the history of its consequences will welcome his decentering of the biblical text and the written and oral media usually studied for its interpretation (commentaries, sermons, and theological tracts).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments 1. In the Beginning Was the Image: Art and the Renaissance of the Bible2. The Artist as Biblical Humanist3. The Artist as Reformer4. Dürer's Reformation: Art and Politics of Biblicism5. Word Made Image: Cranach's Biblical Iconography6. Holbein and the Art of the Heterogeneous Bible 7. Epilogue: For the God-Fearing and the Art-Loving NotesBibliography Index