we find, to a high degree, creative elements of the Bible and its interpretation. For that purpose, Erasmus serves as an example, not that there have been no other original representatives of biblical humanism. Already the Greek edition of the New Testament and the new Latin translation of Erasmus were sufficient to relativize the theological consequences which since then had been drawn from the Vulgate text, and to call in question the scholastic-Latin exegesis. Added to that, came the recourse