Introduction Euan Cameron; Part I. Retrieving and Editing the Text in Early Modern Europe: 1. The study of tongues: the Semitic languages and the Bible in the Renaissance Alastair Hamilton; 2. The revival of Greek studies in the West Jill Kraye; 3. Humanist Bible controversies Richard Rex; 4. The Old Testament and its ancient versions in manuscript and print in the West, from c.1480 to c.1780 Scott Mandelbrote; 5. Critical editions of the New Testament, and the development of text-critical methods: from Erasmus to Griesbach (1516–1807) Eldon J. Epp; 6. In search of the most perfect text: the early modern printed polyglot Bibles from Alcalá (1510–20) to Brian Walton (1654–8) Alastair Hamilton; Part II. Producing and Disseminating the Bible in Translation: 7. Publishing in print: technology and trade Andrew Pettegree; 8. Latin Bibles in the early modern period Bruce Gordon and Euan Cameron; 9. The Luther Bible Euan Cameron; 10. Bibles in the Dutch and Scandinavian vernaculars to c.1750 A. A. den Hollander and Ole Peter Grell; 11. German Bibles outside the Lutheran movement Bruce Gordon; 12. Bibles in French from 1520 to 1750 Bernard Chédozeau; 13. English Bibles from c.1520 to c.1750 David Norton; 14. Bibles in Central and Eastern European vernaculars to c.1750 Graeme Murdock; 15. Bibles in Italian and Spanish Emidio Campi and Mariano Delgado; Part III. Processing the Bible: Commentary, Catechesis, Liturgy: 16. Authority G. R. Evans; 17. Theories of interpretation: the Quadriga and its successors Deeana Copeland Klepper; 18. The importance of the Bible for early Lutheran theology Kenneth G. Appold; 19. The Bible in Reformed thought, 1520–1750 Bruce Gordon; 20. The Bible in Roman Catholic theology, 1450–1750 Ellie Gebarowski-Shafer; 21. Orthodox Biblical exegesis in the early modern world (1450–1750) Athanasios Despotis; 22. The Bible in the pulpit, 1500–1750 Hughes Oliphant Old; 23. The Bible in catechesis, c.1500–c.1750 Ian Green; 24. The Bible in liturgy and worship c.1500–1750 Bryan D. Spinks; Part IV. The Bible in the Broader Culture: 25. The Bible in political thought and political debates, c.1500–1750 Nathan Rein; 26. The problem of 'spiritual discipline': apocryphal books among sixteenth-century leaders of the Lutheran churches Susan C. Karant-Nunn; 27. The Bible and the emerging 'scientific' world-view Peter Harrison; 28. Between humanism and Enlightenment: morality, reason and history as factors in biblical interpretation Henning Graf Reventlow; 29. The Bible and the early modern sense of history Euan Cameron; 30. The Bible and literature in the European Renaissance Brian Cummings; 31. The Bible and the visual arts in early modern Europe David H. Price; 32. The Bible and music in the early modern period (1450–1750) Markus Rathey; Part V. Beyond Europe: 33. The Bible in European colonial thought c.1450–1750 Fernando Cervantes; 34. Conquest and evangelisation: the Bible in colonial America (1500–1750) Daniel Bruno and Néstor O. Míguez.
