A History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 1: The Ancient Period (Biblia.com)

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At first glance, it may seem strange that after more than two thousand years of biblical interpretation there are still major disagreements among biblical scholars about what the Jewish and Christian Scriptures say, and about how one is to read and understand them. Yet the range of interpretive approaches now available is the result both of the richness of the biblical texts themselves and of...

Is it possible to find a thought-model or some basic presuppositions that might give a hermeneutical clue to Philo’s expositions of the Laws of Moses? In a recent article Amir stresses the following points as premises for Philo’s exegesis (1988). To Philo the biblical word has authority. This authority is founded on its character as a collection of oracles. “Moses himself learnt it by an oracle and has taught us how it was” (Det. 86). Moses is both receiver and transmitter

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