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From Abelard to Zwingli, the history of Christian biblical interpretation has been shaped by great thinkers who delved deeply into the structure and meaning of Christianity’s sacred texts. With over two hundred in-depth articles, the Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters introduces readers to the principal players in that history: their historical and intellectual contexts, their primary...

students in 374. Well-trained in classical rhetoric, he was imbued with Alexandrian theology, but his “countless volumes on the Holy Scriptures” (Jerome On Illustrious Men [De viris illustribus] 104) showed an independence of interpretation. Fragments survive on the Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Hosea, Malachi, Matthew, 1 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians and Romans. Apollinarius did not perpetuate Origenian allegorism, nor did he formally adhere to the philological method of Antiochene exegetes,
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