What Have They Done to the Bible?: A History of Modern Biblical InterpretationLiturgical Press, 2005 - 378 σελίδες Why have so many scholars ceased to believe in a type of inspiration that distinguishes the Bible from every other book? Why is fundamentalism so unsatisfying to modern people? This history of biblical interpretation from 1500 to the present answers these questions by showing how biblical scholarship has developed under the influence of internal and external factors. In What Have They Done to the Bible John Sandys-Wunsch documents the changes that have taken place in biblical exegesis since 1500 and accounts for the major reasons for these changes. Answering the question of why fundamentalism is unsatisfying to modern people, Sandys-Wunsch maintains that this development was the result of occurrences both within and outside biblical interpretation. The internal" developments consisted of work on the textual tradition, biblical languages, and the recognition of wider problems such as consistency, cogency, and coherence within biblical documents. *External - factors were the development of secular society, tolerance, academic freedom, a perceived dichotomy between the Bible and science, and information about human culture in general, both past and present. He concludes that after the Renaissance it was the application of historical considerations to both the internal and external factors of the biblical tradition that was the main source of the modern approach to the Bible. The Rev. Dr. John Sandys-Wunsch, D.S.Litt., D.Phil., formerly a university professor and administrator in Canada and England, is a research fellow at the University of Victoria. " |
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... Renaissance 27 I. Background 27 II . What Was Done in Biblical Interpretation ? 47 CHAPTER 3 The " Baroque " Period ( 1600-1660 ) 75 I. External Factors 76 II . The Bible 87 CHAPTER 4 The Early Enlightenment Period ( 1660-1700 ) 119 I ...
... Renaissance on . It is sometimes said that " we do not judge the Bible ; it judges us . " While rhetorically this has a fine ring to it , it is of course utter nonsense . Only humans judge ; books without readers are inanimate objects ...
... Renaissance Humanist concern with and love of lan- guage , especially recovering the purity of the classical tongues of Latin and Greek , but there was also a similar effort to master Hebrew and Aramaic and any other language that might ...
... Renaissance scholars were to have an effect on the history of the discipline , but other considerations , especially the importance of history in human culture and the emergence of science , were to have a decisive effect on what took ...
... of opinion in which a scholar worked . However , a word of caution is appropriate . One should always bear in mind that there are dangers in giving objectivity to cultural matters . 27 CHAPTER 2 The Renaissance Background.