History of Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature Book

This is the first volume in a set looking at Biblical Interpretation throughout the History of the Church (and includes handling by Judaism). It is quite a scholarly work - not aimed at the novice - and has a different author for each "chapter". So better to think of these as more like the essays you would read in an Academic Journal. This is in no way a criticism, rather an explanation as multi-volume works can be done in a variety of ways.

The essay approach does mean that there is quite some difference between one "chapter" and another. I would say that I enjoyed the Jerome chapter the most - and whilst I got something out of every "chapter", some authors I found a little too arrogant in their scholastic approach (no consideration or thought given to any academic thoughts that might be a bit more conservative than the authors). Thus I felt a bit like each author was arguing (and often well) for his/her topic - but there really were no other views even mentioned, let alone argued for - and this can tend to give that indication that everyone in the field agrees with the author. To counter-balance this, each "chapter" has an extensive bibliography, thus allowing the reader to read further on the topic - and I do like that :)

I haven't made the next volume a high priority on my reading list at this time.