Top Highlights

• Since ancient texts were being looked to for guidance about the future, part of the interpreter’s job became specifically to trace a dotted line between past and present and say precisely what was to be concluded for us from this or that ancient text.
• Allegorizing is the technique by which concrete details in a text—people, events, places in which things occur—are explained as representing abstract entities, ideas, or virtues or vices or philosophical doctrines.
• to this day, the great centers of modern biblical scholarship are to be found in largely Protestant countries—
• This book is intended as a guide to, and a tour through, the Hebrew Bible.
• Its first aim is to acquaint readers with the contents of the Bible itself.