James H. Morey
Encyclopedia
James H. Morey is an American academic. He is Professor of English at Emory University
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Morey is a graduate of Hamilton College. He holds a PhD form Cornell University
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Morey's Book and Verse is regarded as the standard work on English Biblical paraphrase
s. In it, Morey argues that Biblical material was widely available in English from the 12th-century on, and that the Church's opposition was not to translation per se but to the Lollard encouragement of lay interpretation of the Bible.
Emory University
Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
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Morey is a graduate of Hamilton College. He holds a PhD form Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
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Morey's Book and Verse is regarded as the standard work on English Biblical paraphrase
Biblical paraphrase
A Biblical paraphrase is a literary work that has as its goal not the translation of the Bible but, rather, the rendering of the Bible into a work that retells all or part of the Bible in a manner that accords with a particular set of theological or political doctrines...
s. In it, Morey argues that Biblical material was widely available in English from the 12th-century on, and that the Church's opposition was not to translation per se but to the Lollard encouragement of lay interpretation of the Bible.
Books
- Book and Verse: A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature, 2000, University of Illinois Press
Publicaitons
- "Middle English Didactic Literature," in Readings in Medieval Texts, ed. David F. Johnson and Elaine M. Treharne (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005): 183-97.
- "Plows, Laws, and Sanctuary in Medieval England and in the Wakefield Mactacio Abel," Studies in Philology 95 (1998): 41-55.
- "The 'cultour' in the Miller's Tale: Alison as Iseult," Chaucer Review 29 (1995): 373-81.
- "Latimer's 'Sermon on the Plough' and Spenser's Muiopotmos," Notes & Queries ns 42 (1995): 286-88.
- Peter Comestor, Biblical Paraphrase, and the Medieval Popular Bible," Speculum, vol. 68, no. 1, Jan. 1993, pp. 6–35.