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Originating as a series of lectures at the University of Oxford in 1885, this book by Bible scholar F. W. Farrar surveys the history of biblical interpretation from the early Jewish rabbis through his own time. Contents includes: Success and Failure of Exegesis, Rabbinic Exegesis, Alexandrian Exegesis, Patristic Exegesis, Scholastic Exegesis, The Reformers, Post-Reformation Epoch, and Modern...

At first sight they wear an aspect of the most innocent simplicity. The first of them, known as the rule of “light and heavy,” is simply an application of the ordinary argument “from less to greater.”1 The second, the rule of “equivalence,” infers a relation between two subjects from the occurrence of identical expressions. Thus it is said both of the Sabbath and the Paschal sacrifice that each must be “at its due season,” and if this means that the daily sacrifice must be offered on the Sabbath,
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