David Steinmetz is Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of the History of Christianity at Duke University Divinity School.

All blurbs are from reviews for the cloth edition: 'These essays ... provide a valuable introduction to the sixteenth-century Bible commentary as a genre. However, the contributors have also succeeded in forging links between this genre and larger themes and problems of sixteenth-century history, offering numerous examples of how commentaries mirror the intellectual, social, and institutional developments of their time.' - Stephen G. Burnett, The Sixteenth Century Journal 'The book contributes to the cause of understanding Reformation era exegetical debates in their late medieval context rather than from an anachronistic perspective that attempts to claim the Protestant Reformers for one side or the other in modern debates over doctrines of Scripture.' - Joel E. Kok, Calvin Theological Journal 'All who work in this history of exegesis and its impact on society will want to read this volume...' - Robert Kolb, Religious Studies Review

• Introduction 1Social History and Biblical Exegesis: Community, Family, and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Germany / H.C. Eric Midelfort 7The Consultations of the Universities and Scholars Concerning the "Great Matter" of King Henry VIII / Guy Bedouelle 21The Use of Scripture in Establishing Protestantism: The Case of Urbanus Rhegius / Scott H. Hendrix 37issues in Sixteenth-Century Jewish Exegesis / Kalman P. Bland 50The Hermeneutic of Promise and Fulfillment in Calvin's Exegesis of the Old Testament Prophecies of the Kingdom / Richard A. Muller 68Hebraica Veritas and Traditio Apostolica: Saint Paul and the Interpretation of the Psalms in the Sixteenth Century / R. Gerald Hobbs 83Calvin and the Patristic Exegesis of Paul / David C. Steinmetz 100Erasmus on Romans 9:6-24 / John B. Payne 119The Epistle to the Romans (Chapter 11) According to the Versions and/or Commentaries of Valla, Colet, Lefevre, and Erasmus / Jean-Claude Margolin 136Polemic, Exegetical Tradition, and Ontology: Bucer's Interpretation of John 6:52, 53, and 64 Before and After the Wittenberg Concord / Irena Backus 167"De Exegetica Methodo": Niels Hemmingsten's De Methodis (1555) / Kenneth G. Hagen 181Notes 197Index 257

David Steinmetz is Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of the History of Christianity at Duke University Divinity School.

All blurbs are from reviews for the cloth edition: 'These essays ... provide a valuable introduction to the sixteenth-century Bible commentary as a genre. However, the contributors have also succeeded in forging links between this genre and larger themes and problems of sixteenth-century history, offering numerous examples of how commentaries mirror the intellectual, social, and institutional developments of their time.' - Stephen G. Burnett, The Sixteenth Century Journal 'The book contributes to the cause of understanding Reformation era exegetical debates in their late medieval context rather than from an anachronistic perspective that attempts to claim the Protestant Reformers for one side or the other in modern debates over doctrines of Scripture.' - Joel E. Kok, Calvin Theological Journal 'All who work in this history of exegesis and its impact on society will want to read this volume...' - Robert Kolb, Religious Studies Review

• Introduction 1Social History and Biblical Exegesis: Community, Family, and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Germany / H.C. Eric Midelfort 7The Consultations of the Universities and Scholars Concerning the "Great Matter" of King Henry VIII / Guy Bedouelle 21The Use of Scripture in Establishing Protestantism: The Case of Urbanus Rhegius / Scott H. Hendrix 37issues in Sixteenth-Century Jewish Exegesis / Kalman P. Bland 50The Hermeneutic of Promise and Fulfillment in Calvin's Exegesis of the Old Testament Prophecies of the Kingdom / Richard A. Muller 68Hebraica Veritas and Traditio Apostolica: Saint Paul and the Interpretation of the Psalms in the Sixteenth Century / R. Gerald Hobbs 83Calvin and the Patristic Exegesis of Paul / David C. Steinmetz 100Erasmus on Romans 9:6-24 / John B. Payne 119The Epistle to the Romans (Chapter 11) According to the Versions and/or Commentaries of Valla, Colet, Lefevre, and Erasmus / Jean-Claude Margolin 136Polemic, Exegetical Tradition, and Ontology: Bucer's Interpretation of John 6:52, 53, and 64 Before and After the Wittenberg Concord / Irena Backus 167"De Exegetica Methodo": Niels Hemmingsten's De Methodis (1555) / Kenneth G. Hagen 181Notes 197Index 257

David Steinmetz is Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of the History of Christianity at Duke University Divinity School.

All blurbs are from reviews for the cloth edition: 'These essays ... provide a valuable introduction to the sixteenth-century Bible commentary as a genre. However, the contributors have also succeeded in forging links between this genre and larger themes and problems of sixteenth-century history, offering numerous examples of how commentaries mirror the intellectual, social, and institutional developments of their time.' - Stephen G. Burnett, The Sixteenth Century Journal 'The book contributes to the cause of understanding Reformation era exegetical debates in their late medieval context rather than from an anachronistic perspective that attempts to claim the Protestant Reformers for one side or the other in modern debates over doctrines of Scripture.' - Joel E. Kok, Calvin Theological Journal 'All who work in this history of exegesis and its impact on society will want to read this volume...' - Robert Kolb, Religious Studies Review

• Introduction 1Social History and Biblical Exegesis: Community, Family, and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Germany / H.C. Eric Midelfort 7The Consultations of the Universities and Scholars Concerning the "Great Matter" of King Henry VIII / Guy Bedouelle 21The Use of Scripture in Establishing Protestantism: The Case of Urbanus Rhegius / Scott H. Hendrix 37issues in Sixteenth-Century Jewish Exegesis / Kalman P. Bland 50The Hermeneutic of Promise and Fulfillment in Calvin's Exegesis of the Old Testament Prophecies of the Kingdom / Richard A. Muller 68Hebraica Veritas and Traditio Apostolica: Saint Paul and the Interpretation of the Psalms in the Sixteenth Century / R. Gerald Hobbs 83Calvin and the Patristic Exegesis of Paul / David C. Steinmetz 100Erasmus on Romans 9:6-24 / John B. Payne 119The Epistle to the Romans (Chapter 11) According to the Versions and/or Commentaries of Valla, Colet, Lefevre, and Erasmus / Jean-Claude Margolin 136Polemic, Exegetical Tradition, and Ontology: Bucer's Interpretation of John 6:52, 53, and 64 Before and After the Wittenberg Concord / Irena Backus 167"De Exegetica Methodo": Niels Hemmingsten's De Methodis (1555) / Kenneth G. Hagen 181Notes 197Index 257