Biblical scholarship and the church : a sixteenth-century crisis of authority / Allan K. Jenkins and Patrick Preston.

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.

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This book traces how the authority of the Septuagint and later that of the Vulgate was called into question by the return to the original languages of scripture, and how linguistic scholarship was seen to pose a challenge to the authority of the teaching and tradition of the church. It shows how issues that remained unresolved in the early church re-emerged in first half of the sixteenth century with the publication of Erasmus' Greek-Latin New Testament of 1516. After examining the differences between Erasmus and his critics, the authors contrast the situation in England, where Reformation iss.

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Print version: Jenkins, Allan K., 1931- Biblical scholarship and the church. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-314) and indexes.

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