December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
315 pages
11h 8m
English
Aryeh Kofsky and Serge Ruzer
One of the salient features of the so-called Antiochene School or tradition is its penchant for a type of historical-grammatical and literal-critical exegesis of the Old Testament that may be branded rationalistic hermeneutics. In this study we focus on Theodore of Mopsuestia (ca. 350–428), the illustrious representative of the Antiochene tradition, later extolled in the East Syrian church as “The Interpreter”
– highlighting the implications of his underlying rationalism for both Old and New Testament hermeneutics. Theodore’s rationalism goes hand in hand ...
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