Wrestling with Isaiah
Subtitle: The Exegetical Methodology of Campegius Vitringa
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Company KG
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9783525551028
Subjects: Bible, study and teaching
Description: "Charles Telfer examines the work of Campegius Vitringa (1650-1722), a leading figure in 18th century biblical studies. Admired by Rambach, Franke, Bengel, Delitzsch, Gesenius and the Princetonians, Vitringa's magnum opus was a commentary on Isaiah (1720). After a biography, Telfer analyzes Vitringa's "canones hermeneuticos" alongside his exegetical praxis in Isaiah. With a literal/spiritual hermeneutic focusing on the historical (à la Grotius) as well as on Christ and his kingdom as Isaiah's substance (à la Cocceius), Vitringa was a scholar's scholar who was appreciated for his orthodoxy, piety and pastoral concern."--Back cover.