James H. Morey

James H. Morey is an American academic. He is Professor of English at Emory University.

Morey is a graduate of Hamilton College (A.B. 1983). He holds a Master's (1987) and a Ph.D. (1990) from Cornell University.^[1]

Morey's Book and Verse is regarded as the standard work on English Biblical paraphrases.^[2][3][4] 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.^[5][6]

Books

• Book and Verse: A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature, 2000, University of Illinois Press

Publications

• "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.

References

1. http://english.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/faculty_pages/morey.html
2. Thomas H. Bestul, "Book and Verse." Speculum, Vol. 77, No. 2 (Apr., 2002), pp. 608-610.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Jameela Lares, "Book and Verse," Church History, Vol. 71, No. 3 (Sep., 2002), p. 651,
6. Approaching medieval English anchoritic and mystical texts Christianity and culture, Dee Dyas, Valerie Edden, Roger Ellis, DS Brewer, 2005, p. 48.