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Introduction to the Bible is the indispensable prologue to the entire series of the New Collegeville Bible Commentary. Dividing the contents into two parts, Gregory W. Dawes describes how the Old and New Testaments came to be put together and explores how their stories have been interpreted over the centuries. In the words of Dawes, this very broad overview of a very complex history offers the...

Having looked briefly at the origins of our Bible, it is time to begin our survey of the history of its interpretation. That survey begins with a very long stretch of history, one that embraces what is customarily described as the age of the church fathers (the patristic age: ca. 200–750 A.D.) and the medieval period (ca. 750–1500). In most fields of study it would be foolhardy to try to discuss so long a period, which embraces so many changes
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