Recommended Readings
(drawn from http://www.scotthahn.com/history-of-interpretation on 2 Sept 2018)
- Bartholomew, Craig G, and Stephen C. Evans and Mary Healy. (Eds.). Behind the Text: History and Biblical Interpretation. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2003.
- Blowers, Paul M. (ed.). The Bible in Greek Christian Antiquity. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997.
- _____. Exegesis and Spiritual Pedagogy in Maximus the Confessor. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991.
- Brown, Dennis. Vir Trilinguis: A Study in the Biblical Exegesis of Saint Jerome. Kampen: Kok Pharos, 1992.
- Chau, Wai-Shing. The Letter and the Spirit: A History of Interpretation from Origen to Luther. New York: Peter Lang, 1995.
- Danielou, Jean. From Shadows to Reality: Studies in the Biblical Typology of the Fathers. London: Burns & Oataes, 1960.
- De Lubac, Henri. Medieval Exegesis (Volume I). Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998.
- _____. Scripture in the Tradition. New York: The Crossroad Publisher Company, 2000.
- De Margerie, Bertrand. An Introduction to the History of Exegesis (3 vols.). Petersham, MA: Saint Bede’s Publications, 1993-95.
- Evans, G. R. The Lauguage and Logic of the Bible: The Earlier Middle Ages. New York: Cambridge, 1984.
- Finan, Thomas and Vincent Twomey (eds.), Scriptural Interpretation in the Fathers: Letter and Spirit. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1995.
- Froelich, Karlfried (ed.). Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984.
- Gorday, Peter. Principles of Patristic Exegesis. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1983.
- Grant, Robert M. The Bible in the Church: A Short History of Interpretation. New York: Macmillan, 1948.
- _____. The Letter and the Spirit. New York: Macmillan, 1957.
- Howell, Kenneth. God’s Two Books: Copernican Cosmology and Biblical * * Interpretation in Early Modern Science. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003.
- McNally, Robert E. The Bible in the Early Middle Ages. Westminster, MD: Newman, 1959.
- Preus, James S. From Shadow to Promise: Old Testament Interpretation from Augustine to the Young Luther. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969.
- Reist, Thomas. Saint Bonaventure as a Biblical Commentator. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985.
- Sadowski, Frank. The Church Fathers on the Bible: Selected Readings. Staten Island, NY: Alba House, 1987.
- Simonetti, Manlio. Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church: An Historical Introduction to Patristic Exegesis. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1994.
- Smalley, Beryl. The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1973,
- _____. Medieval Exegesis of Wisdom Literature. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986.
- Trigg, Joseph W. (ed.). Biblical Interpretation. Wilmington, DE: Michael Glazier, 1988.
- Valkenberg, Wilhelm G. “Did Not Our Hearts Burn?”: The Place and Function of Holy Scripture in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. Utrecht: Thomas Instituut te Utrecht, 1990.