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• Historical critics, it is usually said, are interested in genetic questions about the biblical text. They ask when and by whom books were written; what was their intended readership; and, in the case of many biblical books, what were the stages by which they came into being – for it is historical criticism to which we owe the suggestion that many b...
• relation of Christian and Jewish scholarship;
• the discoveries of modern times (such as the Dead Sea Scrolls) have increased our access to the world in which the Bible came into being; archaeology is continually revealing more about the physical realities of life in the biblical world; and fresh linguistic evidence sheds new light on the meaning of biblical texts.
• we are still faced with the question: what does the Bible mean?
• This book offers the reader a progress report on biblical interpretation in the 1990s.