{"product_id":"biblical-exegesis-and-the-formation-of-christian-culture-paperback-9780521045131","title":"Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521045131","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBiblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book challenges conventional accounts of biblical interpretation in the early Church.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFrances M. Young (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521045131, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 December 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e340 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15 x 1.9 cm, 0.512 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This demanding and rewarding book explicates the enormous impact of biblical exegesis on early Christian culture. One should not approach that exegesis without it.\"  Church History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Exegesis and the Unity of the Scriptures: 1. Reception and appropriation\u003cbr\u003e 2. The mind of scripture\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Bible as Classic: 3. Cultures and literatures\u003cbr\u003e 4. The advent of scholarship\u003cbr\u003e 5. Bible and culture\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Language and Reference: 6. Reference and cross-reference\u003cbr\u003e 7. The sacrament of language\u003cbr\u003e 8 All?goria and the?ria\u003cbr\u003e 9. The question of method\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Bible and the Life of Faith: 10. The contexts of interpretation\u003cbr\u003e 11. The life of faith\u003cbr\u003e 12. The theologian as exegete\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion and retrospect: towards an outline historical account\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index of biblical references\u003cbr\u003e Index of modern scholars\u003cbr\u003e Index of subjects.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Biblical studies \u0026amp; exegesis [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Biblical studies \u0026amp; exegesis\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Biblical%20studies%20\u0026amp;%20exegesis%20%5BHRCG%5D%22\"\u003eHRCG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006262825240,"sku":"9780521045131","price":39.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521045131i_8de8af81-1693-47ee-8070-d0692e27b01d.jpg?v=1694968656","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/biblical-exegesis-and-the-formation-of-christian-culture-paperback-9780521045131","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}