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The Antiochene and Alexandrian Traditions of Old Testament Textual Interpretation

The Antiochene and Alexandrian Traditions of Old Testament Textual Interpretation

Paperback

Bible Studies

ISBN13: 9798235494039
Publisher: Colloquium Verlag
Published: Apr 25 2026
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The history of biblical interpretation is, in many ways, the history of how communities of faith have understood themselves in relation to the sacred texts they inherited. Nowhere is this more evident than in the early Christian engagement with the Old Testament, a body of literature that the Church received as Scripture but interpreted in light of the revelation of Christ. From the second to the fifth centuries, two broad interpretive tendencies emerged within the Greek-speaking Christian world-traditions that later scholarship would label Alexandrian and Antiochene. These designations, though imperfect and sometimes misleading, have become shorthand for two distinct yet overlapping ways of reading the Old Testament. The present volume seeks to explore these traditions in depth, not as rigidly opposed systems but as dynamic, historically situated approaches that shaped the development of Christian exegesis and continue to influence hermeneutical debates today.

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