"Roling’s study makes a fascinating and important contribution to our knowledge of the history of biblical exegesis, as well as of the relationship between theology and science. It encourages us to consider the profound dependence of early modern biblical interpretation upon its medieval predecessors, thus challenging superficial distinctions between late medieval and early modern forms of thought… [a] fine book."Philipp W. Rosemann, Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XLVI, No. 1, 2015"The history of exegesis is usually drawn as a history of progress. It is said to have gathered decisive momentum in the philology of sixteenth-century humanism, when the moralizing and allegorizing readings of the Middle Ages were abandoned and the conditions were set for the modern historicocritical approach. The present study aims at telling an alternative story... Thanks to the vast evidence adduced, Roling expertly succeeds in substantiating this alternative story of the history of exegesis. Yet, besides showing the continuity of medieval approaches into the eighteenth century, his study is also a treasury of ignored sources. Roling’s merit is not only to bring these sources into light, but also to demonstrate their relevance both for the history of biblical exegesis and, more importantly, for intellectual history in general."Uehli Zahnd, Speculum 92.4 (2017).