TY - BOOK AU - Black,C.Clifton TI - Reading scripture with the saints SN - 9780718843458 AV - BS500 U1 - 220.609 23 PY - 2015///] CY - [Place of publication not identified] PB - Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors, LLC KW - Bible KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - History KW - fast KW - BIBLES KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION KW - Biblical Reference KW - Handbooks KW - Electronic books N1 - Front cover; Title page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1: Welcome; Patristic Stirrings; Chapter 2: Trinity and Exegesis; Chapter 3: Serving the Food of Full-Grown Adults; Chapter 4: Listen; Middle Ages; Chapter 5: Transfigured Exegesis; Chapter 6: Doubtless Thomas; Chapter 7: Luther Times Three; Some Early Moderns; Chapter 8: "Not of an Age, But for All Time"; Chapter 9: Searcher of the Oracles Divine; Chapter 10: American Scriptures; Conclusion; Chapter 11: Until Later; Appendices; 1: Washington's Farewell2: Lincoln's Second Inaugural; Bibliography; Back cover N2 - Reading Scripture with the Saints is a small museum. On its pages hang portraits of Christianity's ""masters of the sacred page"": Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine of Hippo, Benedict of Nursia, Maximus Confessor, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther and Charles Wesley. Other, surprising figures also appear, such as Shakespeare, Washington and Lincoln. How did these figures from history interpret Scripture? What might their diverse approaches teach today's readers of the Old and New Testaments? What is missing in contemporary biblical interpretation that an awareness of the history of exegesis might comple UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=960006 ER -