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The Use and Abuse of the Bible: A Brief History of Biblical Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Written in an engaging and entertaining manner, this new book from leading Catholic biblical scholar Henry Wansbrough charts the use and abuse of Scripture throughout the ages. It ranges from the evangelists’ engagement with the Hebrew Scriptures to the use of the Bible in present day politics—perhaps most pertinently in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Wansbrough takes, as his starting point,...

In order to understand the use and interpretation of the Bible in the New Testament, the best starting point is the use of the Bible within Judaism. The Bible1 was the only authoritative work within Judaism. The Bible itself did not, of course, yet exist, for no decision had been made about a ‘canon’ of Scripture, nor about which books among the sacred writings were normative and which were not. The expression within Judaism
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