01666 a2200265 4500 1138868620 20250317100406.0 250312042015GB eng 9781138868625 Taylor & Francis GBP 49.99 BB 01 eng D thema D bic LIT000000 bisac LIT012000 bisac REL054000 bisac 220.6092 bisac Mark Hazard Literal Sense and the Gospel of John in Late Medieval Commentary and Literature 1 Oxford Routledge 20150423 228 p Focusing on the famous Medieval commentator Nicolas of Lyra and the anonymous Middle English biblical adaptation of the Gospel of John, the Cursor Mundi, this book examines the development of the analytical tools of biblical literary criticism showing how late Medieval commentators negotiated the paradoxical interdependence of the literal and spiritual senses, as transmitted by traditional and inherited vocabularies, through a focus on narrative structure. Mark Hazard combines an enlightening account of the actual practice of professional commentators, the history of Gospel interpretation and cultural history to reveal that remarkable shift in the treatment of the Bible that modern scholars would regard as having laid the groundwork for the historical-critical methods in biblical research. As such this book sheds light not only on the 14th century practice of biblical interpretation, but will also be of value to those currenlty engaged in reading and writing about the bible. 1772 1772