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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...

of comprehension. Both are the work of the Spirit of God. Yet, external clarity is necessarily entailed by God’s gracious choice to express himself within the normal and accessible conventions of human language. The words of the biblical text are not infinitely pliable. As Luther would later argue, even a heathen, a Jew, or a Turk could rightly explain what is being said at any particular point (WA 26.406.27–29 = LW 37.272). Internal clarity, it too a work of the Spirit, is necessary, because the
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