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Series Foreword
To read Enzo Bianchi’s work is, among other things, to be forcefully made aware that we have got used to a rather thin diet of resources to help us read the Bible. We have plenty of good scholarship and plenty of good popular summaries of that scholarship – but very little on the actual theology of reading the Bible, very little on reading the Bible as a central form of our discipleship. Twentieth-century theology has left us with a great heritage of recovering and reworking some of the major themes in the kind of scriptural study practised in the early or medieval Church or in the Reformation: Henri de Lubac, Karl Barth and others have helped us question the bland modern assumption that the Bible is primarily a set of historical texts, to be read and understood by criteria external to themselves…