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Ausgabe: | Januar/2023 |
Spalte: | 30-32 |
Kategorie: | Bibelwissenschaft |
Autor/Hrsg.: | González, Justo L. |
Titel/Untertitel: | The Bible in the Early Church. |
Verlag: | Grand Rapids u. a.: Wm. B. Eerdmans 2022. 204 S. Kart. US$ 19,99. ISBN 9780802881748. |
Rezensent: | Mark W. Elliott |
Best known for his hugely popular and serviceable (in Protestant circles outside Europe) Story of Christianity (Harper Collins/Zondervan, 2010), in this new book G. covers his subject in sixteen concise chapters, arranged in three sections: the Shape of the Bible, the Use of the Bible, the Interpretation of the Bible. The method is to sketch a fairly basic account of topics, then zoom in with some specific examples. For example, Constantine asking Eusebius for fifty copies of Scriptures for the capital (46) follows a mention of Origen’s Hexapla, presented as a great work that is tragically lost; but there is no mention of the Syro-Hexapla, or Field and his successors.
Sometimes the lack of depth seems to encourage superficiality and misjudgement. To say that ...
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