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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Note of Gratitude; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 God Is Not Like Humans; 2 The Philosophers' Critique of Myth and the Defense of Homer Through Allegorical Interpretation; 3 Hellenistic Jewish Interpretation of the Scriptures; 4 The Interpretation of the Scriptures in the New Testament; 5 The Early Christian Writers; 6 Three Classic Cases; 7 The Special Problem of the Psalms; 8 Ancient and Modern Ways of Dealing with the Problematic Texts; Appendix: Ancient Christian Hermeneutics: The Presuppositions, the Criteria and the Rules Employed
  • Biographical Sketches of Early Christian Writers and Other Significant AuthorsSelect Bibliography; Name and Author Index; Subject Index; Scripture Index ; Praise for Language for God in Patristic Tradition; About the Author; More Titles from InterVarsity Press; Academic Textbook Selector