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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...

and even when he was banished, he became a writer by duty and necessity. A first essay, On the Incarnation of the Divine Word (c. 335), was soon followed by more lengthy Orations Against the Arians and other polemical essays, linked with the crisis around Arius and in defense of the synod of Nicea in 325. Each year, whenever possible, Athanasius sent a circular letter to the churches under his leadership. After 356 he wrote the Life of Antony, the earliest Christian biography. Athanasius’s use of
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