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Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church: An Historical Introduction to Patristic Exegesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

A comprehensive historical survey of patristic exegesis. Simonetti examines the changing understanding of the word of God in the early Church, and describes the individual authors and “schools” which were active in this development. First there is a study of the role of Scripture in the infant Church. Simonetti describes the use of Scripture in orthodox circles, drawing comparisons from the...

The first Christians were Jewish both by birth and by upbringing, so they had no doubts or hesitations in accepting the Old Testament as the revelation of God to Israel, whose elect they considered themselves to be. They interpreted the Old Testament according to methods usual in Judaism of the period, in order to adapt it to their own needs. In doing this they did not limit themselves to merely embellishing their discourse
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