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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... tion , it does give some idea of the variety in the manuscript tradition that the Masoretes suppressed . Other ancient versions also provide some help , but it was always a hope that somehow older , pre - Masoretic texts in Hebrew might ...
... tion . For example , much has been made of the fact that the Hebrew ruach , which means " spirit " or " wind , " is feminine . This is drawn into discussion about the feminine in the Godhead . While the intention is laudable , the ...
... tion , its relationship with the church and other faiths . The ability of scholars to have access to books , to communicate with other scholars , to disseminate ideas will also have to be borne in mind . 1. Technology The effect of the ...
... tion of kings and empires and their relationships to one another . I do not think it is an accident that the professions of theologian and geographer overlapped ; in particular , Gerardus Mercator , whose projection of the world map did ...
... tion to make a distinction between the " precritical " and the " critical " eras , even to suggesting that somehow we should go back to the Edenic innocence of a precritical era . In accord with this distinction , the ques- tion then ...