1. Humanism and Reformation
In early Christianity and in the early church, as in early Judaism, exegesis of the “Sacred Scriptures,” – initially the Old Testament, after the 2nd century the New Testament as well – played an important role [10. 442–448]; [4. 459–467]; [1. 1786–1787]; [7. 473–478]; [6. 1517–1519]. At the beginning of the early modern period, the technical and methodological premises of exegesis were substantially improved, thanks prim…