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History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 1: From the Old Testament to Origen is unavailable, but you can change that!

The interpretation of Scripture determined the development of both early Judaism and the first centuries of the Christian church. This first volume of History of Biblical Interpretation demonstrates how the earliest interpreters of the Bible made the Scriptures come alive for their times. Author Henning Graf Reventlow explores the contexts that influenced early biblical interpretation—Hellenism,...

common understanding that governs the manner and means by which the text, originating in the distant past, can address the present. The building of this bridge between past and present must occur, if the text, which addressed its original setting, is also to speak to the present. This means that already inherent within the text as it moved from tradition to canon there resided the potential of meaning that transcended the original situation in order to speak to the present. This common agreement
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