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The use and abuse of the Bible [electronic resource] : a brief history of biblical interpretation / Henry Wansbrough.
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : T & T Clark, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 209 p.)ISBN: - 9780567563545 (electronic bk.)
- 0567563545 (electronic bk.)
- 220.6 22
- BS538.3 .W36 2010eb
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Summary: Written in an engaging and entertaining manner, this new book from leading Catholic biblical scholar Henry Wansbrough charts the use and abuse of scripture through the ages. It ranges from the evangelists' engagement with Hebrew Scriptures to the use of the Bible in present day politics - most pertinently in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Wansbrough takes as his starting point Frances Young's The Art of Performance . This enables him to creatively display how 'The Bible' is differently 'performed' in different ages. Wansbrough demonstrates the variety of these performances and their differe
The interpretation of the Old Testament in the New -- The second century -- Origen -- Jerome -- St Bede -- The High Middle Ages : Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Aquinas -- Two Norfolk ladies -- Martin Luther -- The Bible in the politics of early seventeenth-century England -- John and Charles Wesley -- Newman -- The Bible and the state of Israel -- Lectio divina.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-206) and index.
The interpretation of the Old Testament in the New -- The second century -- Origen -- Jerome -- St Bede -- The High Middle Ages : Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Aquinas -- Two Norfolk ladies -- Martin Luther -- The Bible in the politics of early seventeenth-century England -- John and Charles Wesley -- Newman -- The Bible and the state of Israel -- Lectio divina.
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Written in an engaging and entertaining manner, this new book from leading Catholic biblical scholar Henry Wansbrough charts the use and abuse of scripture through the ages. It ranges from the evangelists' engagement with Hebrew Scriptures to the use of the Bible in present day politics - most pertinently in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Wansbrough takes as his starting point Frances Young's The Art of Performance . This enables him to creatively display how 'The Bible' is differently 'performed' in different ages. Wansbrough demonstrates the variety of these performances and their differe
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