This book challenges standard accounts of early Christian exegesis
of the Bible. Professor Young sets the interpretation of the Bible
in the context of the Graeco-Roman world - the dissemination of
books and learning, the way texts were received and read, the
function of literature in shaping not only a culture but a moral
universe. For the earliest Christians, the adoption of the Jewish
scriptures constituted a supersessionary claim in relation to
Hellenism as well as Judaism. Yet the debt owed to the practice of
exegesis in the grammatical and rhetorical schools is of overriding
significance. Methods were philological and deductive, and the
usual analysis according to 'literal', 'typological' and
'allegorical' is inadequate to describe questions of reference and
issues of religious language. The biblical texts shaped a
'totalizing discourse' which by the fifth century was giving
identity, morality and meaning to a new Christian culture.
General
| Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
December 2007 |
| First published: |
August 2007 |
| Authors: |
Frances M Young
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| Dimensions: |
227 x 150 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
340 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-521-04513-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-521-04513-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780521045131 |
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