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When the invention of printing was combined with the zeal for biblical doctrine in Reformation theology and with the zest for literary and historical knowledge of the Bible in Renaissance humanism, the combination was responsible for an intellectual explosion and a scholarly revolution. Biblical scholarship as a field of study, indeed as a profession unto itself, came of age through the printed book.
— Jun 24, 2026 08:52AM
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More than any leading Christian thinkers int he preceding thousand years, Reformation theologians identified themselves as, first and last, biblical theologians. The "sacred page" of which Thomas Aquinas had been a "Master" now became the central focus in a way and to a measure that it never had before.
— Jun 23, 2026 03:05PM
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With the sacred text of the Tanakh in a language that was increasingly unintelligible to the worshiping congregation, Jewish liturgical practice had to resort to the use of Aramaic paraphrase and translation, known as Targum (meaning "translation"), which also became part of the normative tradition.
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