Twelfth Century Literal Bible Commentaries: Comparing Jewish and Christian
Devorah Schoenfeld
In the twelfth century, both Jewish and Christian Bible commentators began to emphasize literal, or historical, contextual, approaches interpreting scripture. These wrote predominantly line-by-line commentaries that focused reader's attention on linguistic questions in biblical text. There was also a renewed interest seeing its own terms rather than exclusively through lens of earlier midrashic patristic commentaries, although those continued play an important role. developments happened at same time for scholars, who were often conversation with each other about how interpret Bible.
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