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History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 3: Renaissance, Reformation, Humanism is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume of History of Biblical Interpretation explores the Reformation and Renaissance—an era characterized by major changes such as the rediscovery of ancient writings and the newly invented art of printing. These developments created the context for one of the most important periods in the history of biblical interpretation—one that combined philological insights with new theological...

such a procedure, for which he already had a series of predecessors. To be mentioned after the (lost in the original) Diatessaron of Tatian (second century) are especially the medieval Monotessaron of Johannes Gerson, that constructed from the Gospels as continuous a text as possible, and the 1537 Gospel Harmony (Harmonia evangelica) of the reformer Andreas Osiander (1496–1552); its title became a common term. The attempt to deny contradictions between the Gospels was already undertaken by Augustine
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