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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...

the medieval charter for governmental organization and virtues, with far-ranging secular and ecclesiastical influence. Gregory consistently explained the process of exegesis, its purposes and methods, even as he modeled that process. He inherited from the patristic world the theory of the multiple senses of the scriptural text; he himself generally recognized three spiritual senses (allegory, anagogy, and tropology). He insisted that the historical sense was foundational and essential and that to
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