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A History of Biblical Interpretation: The Ancient Period
(History of Biblical Interpretation Series)

Edited by Alan J. Hauser and Duane F. Watson

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Format: Hardcover, 536pp.
ISBN: 0802842739
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date: December 1, 2003

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At first glance, it may seem strange that after more than two thousand years of biblical interpretation there are still major disagreements among biblical scholars about what the Jewish and Christian Scriptures say and about how one is to read and understand them. Yet the range of interpretive approaches now available is the result both of the richness of the biblical texts themselves and of differences in the worldviews of the communities and individuals who have sought to make the Scriptures relevant to their own time and place.

A History of Biblical Interpretation provides detailed and extensive studies of the interpretation of the Scriptures by Jewish and Christian writers throughout the ages. Written by internationally renowned scholars, this multivolume work comprehensively treats the many different methods of interpretation, the many important interpreters who have written in various eras, and the many key issues that have surfaced repeatedly over the long course of biblical interpretation.

This first volume of A History of Biblical Interpretation explores interpreters and their methods in the ancient period, from the very earliest stages to the time when the canons of Judaism and Christianity gained general acceptance. The first part of the book concentrates on the use of the Scriptures within Judaism. Chapters examine inner-biblical exegesis in the Tanak, the development of the Septuagint, the exegetical approach of Philo of Alexandria, biblical interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Targumim, the nature of rabbinic midrash, the stabilization of the Hebrew Bible, and the interpretation of the Bible in the Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha.

The second part of the book probes themes specific to Christian interpretation of the biblical texts. Chapters here discusses how Israel’s Scriptures are used in the New Testament writings, the hermeneutical approaches of the Apostolic Fathers and the Apologists, Alexandrian and Antiochene exegesis, the contributions of Jerome and Augustine, the formation of the New Testament canon, and the interpretation of Scripture in the New Testament Apocrypha and Gnostic writings.

In addition to these in-depth studies, the volume includes a substantial introduction by the editors that gives readers both a broad overview of the primary issues and features of ancient biblical interpretation as treated in this volume and a means of sampling the ways in which the key figures, schools of interpretation, and issues discussed interweave and contrast with each other.

Up to date, balanced, and engagingly written, this superb work — and those to follow — will soon become a standard resource on the history of biblical interpretation.

Contributors:
Peder Borgen
Dennis Brown
James H. Charlesworth
Philip R. Davies
Craig A. Evans
Harry Gamble
Leonard Greenspoon
Alan J. Hauser
Donald H. Juel
Martin McNamara
Esther Menn
Richard A. Norris Jr.
Gary G. Porton
James A. Sanders
Joseph Trigg
Duane F. Watson
Frances Young


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Biblical interpretation began even before the texts came to be written down. This volume leads readers from those early beginnings through the different stages of the fascinating history of inner-biblical exegesis up to the stabilization of the Tanak, and then further through to the writings of the New Testament and early Christianity. Every step is unfolded in thoroughgoing chapters by specialists who always keep in view the context of the history of biblical interpretation as a whole. The editors are to be congratulated on this very useful, even eye-opening combination of studies that are usually dealt with separately. Readers can look forward to future volumes continuing the discussion of biblical interpretation up through the twentieth century.
—Rolf Rendtorff


 

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Alan J. Hauser is professor of biblical studies at Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. He is also coeditor of Art and Meaning: Rhetoric in Biblical Literature and coauthor of From Carmel to Horeb: Elijah in Crisis and Rhetorical Criticism of the Bible: A Comprehensive Bibliography with Notes on History and Method. University in Boone, North Carolina. Duane F. Watson is professor of New Testament studies at Malone College, Canton, Ohio. He is also the author of Invention, Arrangement, and Style: Rhetorical Criticism of Jude and 2 Peter, editor of Persuasive Artistry: Studies in New Testament Rhetoric, and coauthor of Rhetorical Criticism of the Bible: A Comprehensive Bibliography with Notes on History and Method.

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Preface
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  • Introduction and Overview
        Alan J. Hauser and Duane F. Watson

  • Inner-Biblical Exegesis in the Tanak
        Esther Menn

  • Into Greek: Interpretation In, By, and Of the Septuagint
        Leonar Greenspoon

  • Philo of Alexandria as Exegete
        Peder Borgen

  • Biblical Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls
        Philip R. Davies

  • Interpretation of Scripture in the Targumim
        Martin McNamara

  • Rabbinic Midrash
        Gary G. Porton

  • The Stabilization of the Tanak
        James A. Sanders

  • The Interpretation of the Tanak in the Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
        James H. Charlesworth

  • Interpreting Israel’s Scriptures in the New Testament
        Donald H. Juel

  • The Apostolic Fathers and the Apologists
        Joseph Trigg

  • Alexandrian and Antiochene Exegesis
        Frances Young

  • Jerome and the Vulgate
        Dennis Brown

  • Augustine and the Close of the Ancient Period of Interpretation
        Richard A. Norris, Jr.

  • The Formation of the New Testament Canon and Its Significance for the History of Biblical Interpretation
        Harry Gamble

  • Interpretation of Scripture in the New Testament Apocrypha and Gnostic Writings
        Craig A. Evans

    Contributors
    Index of Ancient and Modern Authors
    Index of Subjects
    Index of Primary Sources



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