James H. Morey is an American academic. He is a professor of English at

Emory University Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1836 as "Emory College" by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory, Emory is the second-oldest private institution of ...

teaching courses in Old and Middle English, including Chaucer. Morey is a graduate of

Hamilton College Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton, following ...

(A.B. 1983). He holds a Master's (1987) and a Ph.D. (1990) from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

and received a Fulbright Scholarship to Iceland (1987–88). Morey's ''Book and Verse'' is regarded as the standard work on English

Biblical paraphrase 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 ...

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 Lollardy, also known as Lollardism or the Lollard movement, was a proto-Protestant Christian religious movement that existed from the mid-14th century until the 16th-century English Reformation. It was initially led by John Wycliffe, a Catho ...

encouragement of lay interpretation of the Bible.Approaching medieval English anchoritic and mystical texts Christianity and culture, Dee Dyas, Valerie Edden, Roger Ellis, DS Brewer, 2005, p. 48.

Books

* Editor, ''Jerome's Abbreviated Psalter: The Middle English and Latin Versions,'' 2019, Amsterdam University Press *''Book and Verse: A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature,'' 2000, University of Illinois Press * ''Prik of Conscience,'' 2012, Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications

Publications

*"The Wycliffites: Hosts or Guests, First Finders or Followers?" in ''The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation'', ed. Elizabeth Solopova (Brill, 2016): 85–104. *"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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Morey, James H. American academics of English literature Emory University faculty Cornell University alumni Hamilton College (New York) alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people)