Selected Christian Hebraists

Title page......Page 3
CONTENTS......Page 7
PREFACE......Page 9
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 11
The Church\'s first Greek Bible......Page 21
Origen and the Hebrew Bible......Page 32
Jerome and the Hebrew Bible......Page 41
A biographical sketch......Page 52
His environment and influence......Page 54
Andrew and Hebrew scholarship......Page 60
Andrew as an interpreter of the Vulgate......Page 67
Andrew and \'rationalism\'......Page 71
Andrew\'s exegesis and the intention of Old Testament authors......Page 76
Andrew and Christian exegesis of the Old Testament......Page 81
Biographical sketches......Page 86
Vernacular translations of the Bible......Page 88
Biblical science......Page 90
The authority of the Bible......Page 95
Textual criticism......Page 100
Attitudes to Jewish scholarship......Page 103
Patristic scholarship......Page 106
The process of translation......Page 108
The Christian interpretation of the Hebrew Bible......Page 112
Old Testament texts in the New Testament......Page 115
4. RICHARD SIMON......Page 121
Simon\'s environment and the nature of his biblical scholarship......Page 122
Simon and Jewish scholarship......Page 127
The Septuagint......Page 135
The Vulgate......Page 143
Criticisms of translators and commentaries......Page 148
The concept of \'obscurity\'......Page 152
The environment of Geddes\'s biblical scholarship......Page 161
The nature of Geddes \'s biblical criticism......Page 172
Problems of translation......Page 181
Criticism and theology......Page 192
CONCLUSION......Page 201
APPENDIX 1 THE MILAN PALIMPSEST......Page 205
APPENDIX 2 THE SEPTUAGINT TEXT USED BY ORIGEN IN HIS HOMILY ON THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH......Page 207
APPENDIX 3 JEROME\'S USE OF THE SEPTUAGINT IN HIS COMMENTARY ON JEREMIAH......Page 209
APPENDIX 4 ANDREW OF ST VICTOR ON ISAIAH I 31......Page 211
APPENDIX 5 WILLIAM FULKE ON ISAIAH XXVIII 11 AND 1 CORINTHIANS XIV 21......Page 213
NOTES......Page 215
1 The foundations......Page 257
2 Andrew of St Victor......Page 258
3 William Fulke and Gregory Martin......Page 259
4 Richard Simon......Page 260
5 Alexander Geddes......Page 261
GENERAL INDEX......Page 265
INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS......Page 271
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES......Page 273
INDEX OF EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE......Page 277