A biblical paraphrase is a literary work which 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.[1] Such works "weave with ease and without self-consciousness, in and out of material from the volume we know between hard covers as the Bible ...(bringing it) into play with disparate sources, religious practices, and (prayers)."[2]
- ^ James H. Morey, "Peter Comestar, Biblical Paraphrase, and the Medieval Popular Bible," Speculum, vol. 68, no. 1, Jan. 1993, pp. 6-35.
- ^ Wallace, David, The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 477 ff.