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History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 2: From Late Antiquity to the End of the Middle Ages is unavailable, but you can change that!

Volume two of History of Biblical Interpretation begins in Asia Minor in the late-fourth century with Bishop Theodore of Mopsuestia, the founder of a school of interpretation that accentuated the literal meaning of the Bible and thereby stood out from the tradition of antiquity. It ends with another outsider, a thousand years later in England, who stood at the end of an era: John Wyclif. This...

Knowledge of Hebrew seemed to Jerome over time indispensable for an adequate understanding of the Old Testament text and its translation into Latin. “Just as the reliability of the ancient books [the Old Testament] is to be determined on the basis of the Hebrew volumes, so that of the New [Testament] demands the norm of Greek language” (Ep. 71.5). The weaknesses of the Septuagint made it, in his view, impossible to aim at a correct wording—although he made use of the Hexapla’s other Greek translations
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