Alan J. Hauser, Duane F. Watson, "A History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 1: The Ancient Period "
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | November 4, 2003 | ISBN: 0802842739 | PDF | 560 pages | 16.8 MB
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.