General Introduction to the Study of the Holy Scriptures
Overview
General Introduction to the Study of the Holy Scriptures grew out of lectures given by Professor Gigot at St. John’s Boston Ecclesiastical Seminary and was intended chiefly as a textbook. Its approach is that of the historical-critical method and is divided in three sections: a discussion of how the canon was assembled and recognized as inspired, textual criticism of the manner in which the books have been transmitted to posterity, and Biblical hermeneutics.
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- Preface and index
- Tables and charts
- Synopsis of each chapter
Top Highlights
“Deutero-canonical, that is, admitted into it after the doubts entertained for some time about their sacred character had been finally removed. Protestants, it is true, consider the Deutero-canonical books of the Old Testament2 as uncanonical, and hence give them the name of Apocryphal, but the impartial and careful study of the manner in which the sacred books were gathered up and recognized as inspired clearly shows that the Catholic position is the only one tenable on historical grounds.” (Page 26)
“Sent to convert the Greek-speaking world, they naturally appealed to the existing Greek version of Holy Writ for oral and written proofs in favor of Christ’s messiahship and divinity. In point of fact, their quotations from the Greek Bible are so numerous (about 300 out of 350 quotations of the Old Testament in the New), and of such a nature, that some writers have seen in them a proof that the Apostles had formally ratified all its contents.” (Page 42)
“The last official catalogue of the Western Church to be mentioned here in favor of the deutero-canonical books is the list of the sacred writings which Pope St. Innocent I sent in 405 a.d.” (Page 61)
“In its original Greek form (κανών) it designates a straight rod, a pole, and taken metaphorically, a rule” (Page 25)
“Proto-canonical, that is belonging to the Canon from the first” (Page 26)
- Title: General Introduction to the Study of the Holy Scriptures
- Author: F. E. C. Gigot
- Publisher: Benziger Brothers
- Publication Date: 1900
- Pages: 637