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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... understanding on our part , but without the pain involved we cannot enter into another way of thinking . No one is as dangerous as the leader of a nation who knows all that is worth knowing about people he or she has never met . True ...
... understanding of the Bible for many people , whether they are its defenders or its antagonists . In par- ticular , there are still those who feel that if the King James ( Authorized ) Version of the Bible was good enough for Jesus and 1 ...
... Understanding language It is important to bear in mind that language is both complicated and more often ambiguous than people are tempted to think . Even in one's own language it is possible to make a mistake . In an English class many ...
... understanding lies behind any attempt at interpretation , although sometimes the weight of evidence leads to a change of perception . In interpreting the books of the Bible , we have to make a judgment about their genre . A clear case ...
... understanding the texts we read ( or for that matter , the words other humans say to us person- ally ) . The problems that arise when we read the Bible in the twenty - first century come from our inability to ignore what we know about ...