Calvin's efforts to restore access to the sources of true and edifying knowledge, and to build up piety
by means of those sources, were
shared by other
biblical humanists such as the classics
scholar Guillaume Budé of France and the great Dutch humanist Erasmus.
What literary critics and
biblical scholars share, according to the editors of The Literary Guide, is not so much an interest in the referential qualities of the
biblical texts as an interest in their internal relationships, particularly as these relationships are controlled
by language.