Dickinson is by far my favorite 19th-century biblical interpreter — much more fun than those German scholars — and Robinson shares with Dickinson an easy, playful way with Scripture.
Known in Arabic as Abū Hārūn Mūsā, he belonged to a prominent Hispano-Hebrew family (his three brothers were eminent scholars) and was related to the poet and biblical interpreter Abraham ibn Ezra.
C. 350 Antioch, Turkey 428 or 429 Mopsuestia, Turkey Theodore Of Mopsuestia, (born c. 350, Antioch, Syria died 428/429, Mopsuestia, Cilicia [now part of Turkey]) Syrian theologian, considered the greatest biblical interpreter of his time and the spiritual head of the exegetical School of Antioch.
Prior to the scientific revolution, the vast majority of biblical interpreters accepted a literal interpretation of this passage and others like it.
C. 1270 Vieille-Lyre, France October 16, 1349 or October 23, 1349 Paris, France Nicholas Of Lyra,, Latin Nicolaus Lyranus (born c. 1270, Vieille-Lyre, Normandy died Oct. 16/23, 1349, Paris), author of the first printed commentary on the Bible and one of the foremost Franciscan theologians and influential exegetes (biblical interpreters) of the Middle Ages.
49 BCE - 24 Babylonia Hillel, (flourished 1st century bc c. first quarter of the 1st century ad) Jewish sage, foremost master of biblical commentary and interpreter of Jewish tradition in his time.
For the last, he was especially praised by his contemporaries, who extolled him as a masterly interpreter of biblical stories for his skill in representing emotions and attention to detail.
These earlier authors are highly sophisticated interpreters of biblical and philosophical texts, finding levels of conflict and concord among different authors that modern interpreters would tend to miss.
(In unpublished work, Kripke (1973) mentions the historical case of the Biblical term 'Moloch', which interpreters of the Bible took to be a name for a mythical pagan god, whereas modern philology suggests it was in fact used as a common noun either for kings or for human sacrifices.
Moreover, as interpreters began to collect different interpretations of biblical texts, they tended to deal with conflicts between authorities by attempting to harmonize different opinions rather than simply keeping some and discarding others.
They also rely on what the Biblical scholar James Tabor calls "inspired interpreters," prophets equipped with the divine insight to interpret those clues and prepare their followers to be among God's chosen.
