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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,...

classic language and imagery of divine intervention. Apocalyptic writing in the New Testament makes use of these conventions drawn from prophetic writings in the later parts of the Old Testament. One early such writing is ‘The Apocalypse of Isaiah’ (Isaiah 24–27, one of the latest portions of the book of Isaiah10). Though lacking many features that will become commonplace in later apocalyptic writing, these chapters use the cosmic imagery of total destruction of the world (24:3–6, 19–21; 27:1).
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