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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... give a general overview of what took place between 1450 and 1889 , for by the end of the nineteenth century the competing variety of attitudes , as- sumptions , and critical questions on which subsequent scholarship has been based had ...
... argue their points . Some of what they say is outmoded by more recent developments , but the quality of their minds is an example to follow , even if they do not always give us conclusions to accept . To see Preface xv.
A History of Modern Biblical Interpretation John Sandys-Wunsch. not always give us conclusions to accept . To see a point well argued is a great aesthetic pleasure , even if we do not agree . The format and peculiarities of this book ...
... give a recognizable word . On the other hand , if scribes are writing out what is dictated by a supervisor , there is a problem of hearing . The dangers of dictating can be illustrated from a problem in the text of Shakespeare . In ...
... give an idea of its magni- tude . The traditional text of the Hebrew Bible as preserved in the syna- gogues is known as the Masoretic Text ( MT ) . This is a standardized text , that is , it appears to be the result of a process of ...