The Interpretation of Scripture and Other Essays (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Benjamin Jowett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330935454 ISBN 13: 9781330935453

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how scripture is read and interpreted across tradition and time. Discover the ideas that shape modern biblical interpretation and their historical roots.

This collection offers readers a thoughtful look at how scholars compare Philo and the New Testament, and how those comparisons influenced early Christian thought. It also includes a detailed life portrait of Jowett’s influence in Oxford and a discussion of how ideas about scripture, science, and philosophy interact in a broad scholarly context.

• Clear explanations of how different methods of interpretation developed over time


• Accessible discussions of complex topics like prophecy, the law, and the Gospel


• Comparison of Philo’s philosophy with Pauline teaching to illuminate core contrasts


• Contextual essays on the history of biblical criticism and its impact on belief

Ideal for readers of religious history, philosophy of religion, and scholars seeking a grounded overview of scripture interpretation and its historical debates.

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Excerpt from The Interpretation of Scripture and Other Essays This life of Jowett by two of his most enthusiastic and sympathetic disciples satisfies many demands of the art of biography. Jowett himself loved Boswell's model work as it deserves to be loved, and would have made it the standard of excellence. The unique combination of circumstances which enabled Boswell to turn out a masterpiece has not, and probably never will, be repeated. Jowett, in spite of some resemblances, noted by his biographers, was not a Johnson; and the biographers - the remark is, perhaps, equivocal - are clearly not Boswells. Boswell had the tact for selecting only such trifles as were characteristic; and I fear that they do not fully share that quality. Still, with the help of Jowetts letters and written meditations, they have brought us face to face with the man; and should enable us to form a distinct portrait of a very interesting figure. One result may be emphatically recognized at the outset. Nobody can lay down these volumes without feeling that Jowett deserved the affection of his friends. He had his weaknesses like Johnson; but we feel in his case, as in Johnson's, that the core of the mans nature was sweet, sound, and masculine. This is part of the explanation of a problem which, I must confess, has often appeared to me as to others, to be rather enigmatic. What was the secret and the real nature of Jowett's remarkable influence? I had not the advantage of coming within his personal sphere, nor even of belonging to his beloved University. I had, however, the good fortune of knowing at an early period some of the group, among whom, as we are told, 'there sprang up what outsiders termed a sort of Jowett worship.' That group, it is added, did not form a 'mutual admiration society.' One reason is obvious: the bond of union was personal. The worship of Newman or of Carlyle meant, as a rule, sympathy with certain dogmas or the acceptance of a particular set of shibboleths, which at o

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330935454
• ISBN 13: 9781330935453
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 590