James H. Morey

James H. Morey is an American academic. He is a professor of English at Emory University teaching courses in Old and Middle English, including Chaucer.[1]

Morey is a graduate of Hamilton College (A.B. 1983). He holds a Master's (1987) and a Ph.D. (1990) from Cornell University and received a Fulbright Scholarship to Iceland (1987–88).[2]

Morey's Book and Verse is regarded as the standard work on English Biblical paraphrases.[3][4][5] 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.[6][7]

  1. ^ "James H. Morey, Professor". english.emory.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-06-14.
  2. ^ "James H. Morey, Professor". english.emory.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-06-14.
  3. ^ Thomas H. Bestul, "Book and Verse." Speculum, Vol. 77, No. 2 (Apr., 2002), pp. 608-610.
  4. ^ Richard K. Emmerson "A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature," The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 100, No. 4 (Oct., 2001), pp. 574-575.
  5. ^ Sue Powell, Book and Verse: A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 98, No. 2 (Apr., 2003), pp. 418-420.
  6. ^ Jameela Lares, "Book and Verse," Church History, Vol. 71, No. 3 (Sep., 2002), p. 651,
  7. ^ Approaching medieval English anchoritic and mystical texts Christianity and culture, Dee Dyas, Valerie Edden, Roger Ellis, DS Brewer, 2005, p. 48.