History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 2: From Late Antiquity to the End of the Middle Ages (Biblia.com)

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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...

have traveled beyond Tripoli in Syria to Palestine. There he visited, among other things, monastic colonies at the Dead Sea (see Conc. 1.2.3a) and Jerusalem and, if we can believe the oldest autobiography, surviving in fragments, experienced a revelation about the two Testaments on Mount Tabor, the place of sacrifice of the prophet Elijah (1 Kgs 18). This experience led him to give up his worldly course of life and move through the country thereafter in a monk’s cowl. After returning from Palestine,

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