Biblical Poetics before Humanism and Reformation

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Review of the hardback: 'This is a ground-breaking book, in which there are discoveries on every page.' G. R. Evans, Church Times Review of the hardback: '... Luther and Calvin did not emerge from a vacuum and, as Dr Ocker shows, much of what they had to say - and particularly their hermeneutical principles - can be found more or less fully developed several generations before they began to preach and teach ...Students of early Protestantism will need to read this book carefully and absorb its insights in order to gain a deeper understanding of what it was that produced the great sixteenth century upheaval.' Churchman Review of the hardback: 'No-one interested in the long history of Christian - or, more broadly, 'western' hermeneutics - can afford to ignore Ocker's work.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History Taken from the hardback review: '... provocative ...Ocker has offered the scholarly community much food for thought and new texts to analyze ...' Marginalia Taken from the hardback review: 'In Biblical Poetics before Humanism and Reformation, Ocker chronicles with exemplary scholarly depth, linguistic competence and erudite yet not pedantic prose the key shift in biblical hermeneutic, rhetoric and theology in the late Middle Ages.' Scottish Journal of Theology