Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Social history and biblical exegesis: community, family, and witchcraft in sixteenth -century Germany 7
5. The consultations of the universities and scholars concerning the "Great Matter" of King Henry VIII 21
6. The use of scripture in establishing protestantism: the case of Urbanus Rhegius 37
7. Issues in sixteenth-century Jewish exegesis 50
8. The hermeneutic of promise and fulfillment in Calvin's exegesis of the old testament prophecies of the kingdom 68
9. Hebraica Veritas and Traditio Apostolica saint Paul and the interpretation of the psalms in the sixteenth century 83
10. Calvin and the Patristic exegesis of Paul 100
11. Erasmus on romans 9:6- 2 4 119
12. The epistle to the Romans (chapter II) according to the Versions and/or commentaries of Valla,Colet, Lefevre, and Erasmus 136
13. Polemic, exegetical tradition, and ontology Bucer's interpretation of john 6: 52, 53, and 64 before and after the Wittenberg concord 167
14. ''De Exegetica methodo" Niels Hemmingsen's de methodis (1555) 181
15. Notes 197
16. Index 257