David Hotchkiss Price (born January 29, 1957) is an American historian and a scholar of early modern culture. Professor of Religious Studies, History, and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University until 2024, he is now emeritus (Jewish Studies). Price studied classics (BA) and German literature (MA) at the

University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati, informally Cincy) is a public university, public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1819 and had an enrollment of over 53,000 students in 2024, making it the ...

before receiving his PhD in German Studies from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

(1985). He also studied at the University of Tübingen and the University of Munich. From 2005 to 2016, he was a professor at the University of Illinois. He previously taught at Yale and the University of Texas at Austin. Price is the author of numerous books and articles on the Bible in English, Reformation drama, humanist poetry, Albrecht Dürer, and

Johannes Reuchlin Johann Reuchlin (; 29 January 1455 – 30 June 1522), sometimes called Johannes, was a German Catholic humanist and a scholar of Greek and Hebrew, whose work also took him to modern-day Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and France. Most of Reuchlin's c ...

, the Jewish Book Controversy of the early sixteenth century, and religious toleration in the early modern period.

Selected publications

* ''Defending Judaism: Jewish Writing and Religious Toleration in Early Modern Europe.'' Oxford University Press, 2025. * ''In the Beginning was the Image: Art and the Reformation BIble.'' Oxford University Press, 2021. * ''Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books''. Oxford University Press, 2011. * Nicodemus Frischlin, ''Phasma''. Critical edition of Latin text, with translation and introduction by David H. Price. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2007. * (Co-author) ''“Let It Go Among Our People”: An Illustrated History of the English Bible from Wyclif to the King James Version''. Cambridge: Lutterworth, 2004. * ''Albrecht Dürer’s Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith''. University of Michigan Press, 2003. *

Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer ( , ;; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),Müller, Peter O. (1993) ''Substantiv-Derivation in Den Schriften Albrecht Dürers'', Walter de Gruyter. . sometimes spelled in English as Durer or Duerer, was a German painter, Old master prin ...

. ''Underweysung der Messung.'' Electronic facsimile of 1538 edition (CD-ROM). Commentary by David Price. Palo Alto: Octavo, 2003. * '' Janus Secundus.'' Tempe: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1996. * ''The Reformation of the Bible: The Bible of the Reformation'', with

Jaroslav Pelikan Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Jr. (; December 17, 1923 – May 13, 2006) was an American scholar of the history of Christianity, Christian theology, and medieval intellectual history at Yale University. Early years Jaroslav Jan Pelikan Jr. was born on D ...

and Valerie Hotchkiss, Yale University Press, 1996. (exhibition catalog) Winner of the Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab American American Book Prices Current Exhibition Catalogue Award. * ''The Political Dramaturgy of Nicodemus Frischlin: Essays on Humanist Drama in Germany.'' Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

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