Tuesday, January 08, 2019
Anachronisms abound
Antiochene exegesis is anchored in rhetoric, and this makes any attempt to characterize it as the precursor to the modern critical approach problematic. To speak of any sort of grammatical-historical exegesis in antiquity is actually anachronistic, and equating the historia employed by Antiochenes with our modern understanding of history is equally so.—Early Christian Readings of Genesis One, page 137
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