Esta é uma resenha que merece ser lida. Foi feita por Devorah Schoenfeld, da Graduate Theological Union/University of California-Davis, Berkeley, CA, USA, e publicada na Review of Biblical Literature no dia 13 de maio de 2006.
É sobre o livro de SANDYS-WUNSCH, J. What Have They Done to the Bible? A History of Modern Biblical Interpretation. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2005, p. xx + 378. ISBN 0814650287.
Este livro trata da interpretação da Bíblia entre 1450 e 1889. John Sandys-Wunsch, um estudioso anglicano (the Rev. Dr. John Sandys-Wunsch, D.S.Litt., D.Phil., formerly a university professor and administrator in Canada and England, is a research fellow at the University of Victoria), mostra como a Bíblia foi “destronada”, chegando ao século XIX em posição bem diferente de tempos anteriores: agora é a Bíblia que precisa do suporte da ciência e não a ciência que precisa do suporte da Bíblia (“In this new era, it was the Bible that required the support of science, not science that required the support of the Bible“).
O início da resenha nas palavras da autora:
What Have They Done to the Bible? is an engagingly written, accessible introduction to the history of Western Christian biblical interpretation from 1450 to 1889. It tells the story of the “dethronement of the Bible,” or the movement from an approach to biblical study in which the Bible (or its traditional interpretations) is the source of all knowledge to an approach in which even the Bible can be judged and evaluated on the basis of science and history. In this narrative, eighteenth century developments are central, and this book argues that it was in the eighteenth century that both the scientific approach to the Bible and pietistic and theological responses to it took their modern shape. The book covers a wide range of modern thinkers and exegetes, with a special focus on eighteenth century writers. It treats Protestant and Catholic exegetes for the most part together, presenting their similarities as more important than their differences.
E, pelo visto, este é um livro que merece ser lido!
