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At the beginning of the 21st century, precisely when the limitations of the historical-critical approach to the Bible have become clear to nearly everyone, there has simultaneously arisen the corresponding realization that the examination of the world that produced the Bible is not nearly so satisfying or important as appreciating the world that the Bible produced. Ph.D. programs in biblical studies suddenly find the history of interpretation an important topic, not simply as a way of studying the esoteric lore of scholarship, but as a way of understanding the reception and effect of the biblical texts—receptionsgeschichte and wirkungsgeschichte for […]

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Endnotes

Demus’s earlier publications on the churh of San Marco include a monograph on the mosiacs, Die Mosaiken von San Marco in Venedig, 1100–1300 (Baden, 1935) and The Church of San Marco in Venice: History, Architecture, Sculpture Dumbarton Oaks Studies, 6, (Washington, D.C., 1960).