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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... influence the meaning . Some bilingual people claim that they find they assume a slightly different identity when they switch from one of their languages to the other . 12 Biblical languages are no longer spoken colloquially , at least ...
... influenced by the environment of the place and time where biblical scholars find 20 See Hobbes's remark at the end of his discussion of the Christian Commonwealth ( Leviathan , ch . 43 ) : " For it is not the bare words , but the scope ...
... influence of material condi- tions and contemporary traditions.21 What , then , are the sort of major external factors that can influence the interpretation of the Bible ? Obvi- ously , unless scholars have the means , the opportunity ...
... influenced biblical Israel . People were fascinated by Egypt , but there was no solid information available about it from before the time of Alexander ; on the contrary , there was a great deal of misinformation , some of which lingers ...
... influence of Abraham Ibn Ezra ( c . 1092-1167 ) , David ( c . 1160-1235 ) and Joseph ( c . 1105-1170 ) Kimchi , and Moses Maimonides ( c . 1135-1204 ) , and others on the whole course of the Renaissance has still not been given enough ...