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A Brief History of Old Testament Criticism: From Benedict Spinoza to Brevard Childs is unavailable, but you can change that!

Modern Old Testament interpretation arose in an intellectual environment marked by interest in specific historical contexts of the Bible, attention to its literary matters, and, most significantly, the suspension of belief. A vast array of scholars contributed to the large, developing complex of ideas and trends that now serves as the foundation of contemporary discussions on interpretation. In A...

countervailing voice the Romantic understanding of human nature as primarily expressive in orientation. Charles Taylor observes, “The central notion is that human activity and human life are seen as expressions.”35 Art illustrates the point. In the period of the Enlightenment, a piece of art was measured by its adherence to assumed governing principles of form, symmetry, composition, and beauty. The expressive impulse of the Romantics, however, valued a piece of art for the expression of the artist,
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