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A History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 2: The Medieval through the Reformation Periods is unavailable, but you can change that!

This second installment of A History of Biblical Interpretation contains essays by 15 noted scholars discussing major methods, movements, and interpreters in the Jewish and Christian communities from the beginning of the Middle Ages until the end of the sixteenth-century Reformation. The authors examine themes such as the variety of interpretive developments within Judaism during this period, the...

and ultimately to the response of contemporary Orthodoxy to modern biblical criticism. Byzantine Christianity inherited from the earlier Greek fathers, especially the Alexandrians, less a “theory” of divine inspiration of Scripture than a theology of the mystical presence of the divine Logos within the text that conditions the whole dynamic of interpretation.
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