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Translating Resurrection examines the debate between William Tyndale and George Joye at the beginning of the English Reformation. Occasioned by Joye’s coining ‘life after this’ for Tyndale’s ‘resurrection’ in Joye’s 1534 edition of Tyndale’s New Testament, this fascinating but little-known debate provides unique insights into the reformers’ beliefs concerning post-mortem existence, such as the question of immortality of the soul, soul-sleep, prayers to saints and the doctrine of Purgatory. By providing a thoroughgoing historical and theological context, the book presents an original look at this important episode from the life of the exiled protestant English community. The result will realign scholarship on Tyndale as well as centuries of neglect of Joye’s contributions to early modern bible translation.
Price: $256.00
Pages: 550
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions
Publication Date:
28 November 2014
ISBN: 9789004248946
Format: Hardcover
“[An] excellent and intriguing book […]. Ranging much more widely than most monographs and arguing with more independence and panache than a great many, it incorporates a comprehensive survey of theological formulations about the afterlife in the medieval Church and during the Reformation”. – Lucy Wooding, King’s College London, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 2 (Summer 2016), pp. 760-761.
“an important contribution to the history of the early English Reformation”. – Jonathan Reimer, Pembroke College, Cambridge, in: Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 67, No. 2 (April 2016), pp. 422-423.
“Translating Resurrection is an important study for scholars interested in sixteenth-century biblical translations and publications; in the position Tyndale holds in the scholarly community; in the alleged prejudices of so much secondary work on Tyndale; and in the importance of close reading, of thorough investigation, and of the need for linguistic talent”. – Rudolph P. Almasy, West Virginia University, in: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 47. No. 2 (2016), pp. 458-460.
“an important contribution to the history of the early English Reformation”. – Jonathan Reimer, Pembroke College, Cambridge, in: Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 67, No. 2 (April 2016), pp. 422-423.
“Translating Resurrection is an important study for scholars interested in sixteenth-century biblical translations and publications; in the position Tyndale holds in the scholarly community; in the alleged prejudices of so much secondary work on Tyndale; and in the importance of close reading, of thorough investigation, and of the need for linguistic talent”. – Rudolph P. Almasy, West Virginia University, in: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 47. No. 2 (2016), pp. 458-460.
Gergely M. Juhász, Ph.D. (2008) in Theology, Catholic University of Leuven, is Lecturer in Theology and Biblical Studies at Liverpool Hope University. He has published extensively on early modern biblical translations.