Bible as Book: The First Printed Editions

Contents:
Foreword / Paul Saenger and Kimberly Van Kampen
Introduction / Anthony Kenny
The layout of the Bible gloss in manuscript and early print / J.P. Gumbert
An extraordinary achievement: the Glossa ordinaria in print / Karlfried Froehlich
Biblical blockbooks / Nigel F. Palmer
The impact of the early printed page on the reading of the Bible / Paul Saenger
The changing shape of the Vulgate Bible in the fifteenth-century printing shops / Paul Needham
Hebrew printing of the Bible in the XVth century / Adrian K. Offenberg
Biblical books and the circulation of the Psalms in late-medieval England / Kimberly Van Kampen
The Bible, printing and the educational goals of humanists / Guy Bedoulle
The printing press in Alcalá de Henares: the Complutensian polyglot Bible / Julián Martín Abad
The problem of manuscript basis for the earliest printed editions of the Greek New testament / Michael Welte
'The book thus put in every vulgar hand': impressions of readers in early English printed Bibles / William H. Sherman
The re-evaluation of the patristic exegetical tradition in the sixteenth century / David Steinmetz.