After receiving a Ph.D. from Yale University, David H. Price taught at Yale and the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently Professor of Religious Studies, History, and Jewish Studies at the University of Illinois. He has written books on the Bible in English, Reformation drama, humanist poetry, and, most recently, Albrecht Dürer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation and the Art of Faith.

Richly detailed yet lucid and eminently readable...Price's study is refreshingly balanced in its judgements. He has painstakingly researched original sources and the voluminous previous scholarship in several languages, and has compressed a thorough analysis of the complexities of the topic into a mere 230 pages...Price's penetrating study is an outstanding book with much to offer historians of humanism and the Reformation.

• 1. "Impermissibly Favorable to Jews?" ; 2. Humanist Origins ; 3. Humanism at Court ; 4. Discovery of Hebrew ; 5. Johannes Pfefferkorn and the Campaign against Jews ; 6. Who Saved the Jewish Books? ; 7. Inquisition ; 8. Trial at Rome and the Christian Debates ; 9. The Luther Affair ; 10. "As If the First Martyr of Hebrew Letters" ; Bibliography

After receiving a Ph.D. from Yale University, David H. Price taught at Yale and the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently Professor of Religious Studies, History, and Jewish Studies at the University of Illinois. He has written books on the Bible in English, Reformation drama, humanist poetry, and, most recently, Albrecht Dürer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation and the Art of Faith.

Richly detailed yet lucid and eminently readable...Price's study is refreshingly balanced in its judgements. He has painstakingly researched original sources and the voluminous previous scholarship in several languages, and has compressed a thorough analysis of the complexities of the topic into a mere 230 pages...Price's penetrating study is an outstanding book with much to offer historians of humanism and the Reformation.

• 1. "Impermissibly Favorable to Jews?" ; 2. Humanist Origins ; 3. Humanism at Court ; 4. Discovery of Hebrew ; 5. Johannes Pfefferkorn and the Campaign against Jews ; 6. Who Saved the Jewish Books? ; 7. Inquisition ; 8. Trial at Rome and the Christian Debates ; 9. The Luther Affair ; 10. "As If the First Martyr of Hebrew Letters" ; Bibliography

After receiving a Ph.D. from Yale University, David H. Price taught at Yale and the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently Professor of Religious Studies, History, and Jewish Studies at the University of Illinois. He has written books on the Bible in English, Reformation drama, humanist poetry, and, most recently, Albrecht Dürer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation and the Art of Faith.

Richly detailed yet lucid and eminently readable...Price's study is refreshingly balanced in its judgements. He has painstakingly researched original sources and the voluminous previous scholarship in several languages, and has compressed a thorough analysis of the complexities of the topic into a mere 230 pages...Price's penetrating study is an outstanding book with much to offer historians of humanism and the Reformation.

• 1. "Impermissibly Favorable to Jews?" ; 2. Humanist Origins ; 3. Humanism at Court ; 4. Discovery of Hebrew ; 5. Johannes Pfefferkorn and the Campaign against Jews ; 6. Who Saved the Jewish Books? ; 7. Inquisition ; 8. Trial at Rome and the Christian Debates ; 9. The Luther Affair ; 10. "As If the First Martyr of Hebrew Letters" ; Bibliography