Biblical Interpretation Then & Now: Contemporary Hermeneutics in the Light of the Early Church

Biblical Interpretation Then and Now provides its readers with a generally able and well documented survey of patristic biblical interpretation and with a significant discussion of the potential importance of earlier patterns of interpretation to contemporary hermeneutic discussion.

Dockery's work shows a renewed interest in early Christianity, not just as part of the late antique world, but as a part of the living tradition of Christian thought.