The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative
Subtitle: A Study in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 10, 1980
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780300026023
Subjects: Biblical studies, criticism & exegesis; Criticism & exegesis of sacred texts; Judaism; Reference; Religion / Reference; Religion - Commentaries / Reference
First sentence: Western Christian reading of the Bible in the days before the rise of historical criticism in the eighteenth century was usually strongly realistic, i.e. at once literal and historical, and not only doctrinal or edifying.