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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,...

showing that Jesus is in the line of the prophets, but working a far greater miracle. Instead of Elisha’s proportion of 20:100, Jesus’s is 5:5,000; not five people to a loaf (more like a pitta-bread), but a thousand. The elements, however, are the same: Elisha Jesus 1) Command to give them food 2 Kgs 4:42 Mk 6:37a 2) Reply: ‘This is absurd’ 4:43a 6:37b 3) Repetition of command 4:43b 6:39 4) Feeding 4:44a 6:41 5) They eat and have some left over 4:44b 6:42–44. More particularly, the New Testament
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