Contents

Acknowledgments

Sequence and Dates of the Original Publication of the Paraphrases

Order of the Paraphrases in the Collected Works of Erasmus (CWE)

Abbreviations

Introduction

PART ONE: 'A KIND OF EXPOSITION': THE PRODUCTION OF THE PARAPHRASES

1 The Tongue and the Book: Erasmus' Paraphrases on the New Testament and the Arts of Scripture

2 Exegetical Fictions? Biblical Paraphrases of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

3 Historical Imagination and the Representation of Paul in Erasmus' Paraphrases on the Pauline Epistles

4 Triumphs, Trophies, and Spoils: Roman History in Some Paraphrases on Paul by Erasmus

5 Sub evangelistae persona: The Speaking Voice in Erasmus' Paraphrase on Luke

6 Jesus and His Family in Erasmus' Paraphrases on Luke and John

7 Exegesis and Marriage in Erasmus' Paraphrases on the New Testament

PART TWO: 'A FULL LIBRARY OF DIVINITY BOOKS': THE RECEPTION OF THE PARAPHRASES

8 The Textual Travail of the Tomus secundus of the Paraphrases

9 Why Noël Béda Did Not Like Erasmus' Paraphrases

10 The Paraphrases of Erasmus in French

11 John Bale's Image of Both Churches and the English Paraphrase on Revelation

12 Forming a Protestant Consciousness? Erasmus' Paraphrases in English Parishes, 1547–1666

Bibliography

Contributors

Index of Scriptural Passages

General Index

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