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Book SynopsisCharts the use and abuse of scripture throughout the ages. This title includes topics ranging from the evangelists' engagement with the Hebrew Scriptures to the use of the Bible in present day politics - perhaps most pertinently in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It takes as his starting point Frances Young's "The Art of Performance".
Trade Review"'Henry Wansbrough is part of a generation of Catholic Bible scholars who have made it possible to say that the Catholic Church offers a valuable and distinctive contribution to the continuing work of scholarship and biblical formation. Fr Henry has been a magnificent maitre d'hotel introducing new generations to the great feast of Scripture. We are all deeply indebted to him' - H.E. Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster * Wansbrough is a well-known Catholic commentator on the bible and is the translator and editor of one of the most popular modern English versions of the Bible - The New Jerusalem Bible."
Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction: How the Bible Came to Us; 1. The First Century: The Interpretation of the Old Testament in the New; 2. The Second Century: Melito and Irenaeus; 3. The Third Century: Origen; 4. The Fourth Century: Jerome; 5. The Dark Ages: Bede and the Bible; 6. The Bible and the Crusades; 7. Bernard of Clairvaux and Thomas Aquinas; 8. Martin Luther; 9. The Bible in Early Seventeenth Century England; 10. Wesley; 11. The Political Use of the Bible: Israel and the Palestinian Conflict; 12. Lectio Divina; Glossary; Bibliography.
