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1 Dean P. Béchard, ed. and trans., The Scripture Documents: An Anthology of Official Catholic Teachings (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2002), 3,6–10.
2 Gerald P. Fogarty, S.J., American Catholic Biblical Scholarship: A History from the Early Republic to Vatican II (New York: Harper & Row, 1989), 6.
3 Ibid., 3.
4 Conjectures sur les Mémoires originaux dont il paroit que Moyse s’est servi pour composer le livre de la Genèse (Brussels: Fricx, 1753)
Pierre Gibert, Conjectures sur la Genèse (Paris: Noesis, 1999
Ana M. Acosta, "Conjectures and Speculations: Jean Astruc, Obstetrics, and Biblical Criticism in Eighteenth-Century France," Eighteenth Century Studies 35, no. 2 (2002): 256–66.
5 Theologia Dogmática, 292–83
Fogarty, Catholic Biblical Scholarship, 8.
6 Fogarty, Catholic Biblical Scholarship, 8,15,23–25.
7 Ibid., 28, 26.
9 Fogarty, Catholic Biblical Scholarship, 38–39.
10 Béchard, Scripture Documents, 57.
Gerald R Fogarty, "Scriptural Authority (Roman Catholicism)," ABD 5:1023–26.
11 Fogarty, Catholic Biblical Scholarship, 39.
12 Restored to Jerusalem, he continued there until ill health forced his return to France, where he died in 1938, at the age of eighty-three. In 1967 his body was brought back to Jerusalem to be interred in the center of the choir of the Basilica of St. Stephen, where it rests today (www.op.org/op/ ebaf/index-eng.htm).
13 Roland E. Murphy, "What Is Catholic about Catholic Biblical Scholarship—Revisited," BTB 28 (1998): 112–19, here 117.
16 Fogarty, Catholic Biblical Scholarship, 241.
17 Béchard, Scripture Documents, 23–25.
Sandra Schneiders, The Revelatory Text: Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1999), 64–90, passim.
18 Otto Maduro, in discussion after the Borderlands lecture, Brite Divinity School, October 11,2005.
19 Béchard, Scripture Documents, 273
20 Luke Timothy Johnson and William S. Kurz, S.J., The Future of Catholic Biblical Scholarships Constructive Conversation (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002), 19.
21 Joseph A. Fitzmyer, The Biblical Commissions Document: "The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church" Text and Commentary (Subsidia Biblica 18; Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1995)
Peter S. Williamson, "Catholic Principles for Interpreting Scripture," CBQ 65 (2003): 327–49.
Jean l’Hour, "Pour une lecture ’Catholique de la Bible," Biblnt 5 (1997): 113–32.
22 Béchard, Scripture Documents, 284.
Daniel J. Harrington, How Do Catholics Read the Bible? (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).
23 Johnson and Kurz, Future of Catholic Biblical Scholarship, 3–19.
24 Murphy, "What Is Catholic," 113.
25 Interpretation of the Bible in the Church II.B.2 (Béchard, Scripture Documents, 282).
26 Christopher Seitz, Word without End: The Old Testament as Abiding Theological Witness (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998), 97
Murphy, "What Is Catholic," 112.
27 Eta Linnemann, Historical Criticism of the Bible: Methodology or Ideology? (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1990), 17–18.
28 lohnson and Kurz, Future of Catholic Biblical Scholarship, 37–38.
29 George Aichele et al., The Postmodern Bible (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 4.
30 http://pewforum.org/docs/index.php?DocID=l15 (accessed October 20,2005).
31 Wayne A. Meeks,"Why Study the New Testament?" NTS 51 (2005): 155–70, here 157,160.
32 Béchard, Scripture Documents, 284.
33 Murphy, "What Is Catholic," 116
Interpretation of the Bible in the Church, II.B (Béchard, Scripture Documents, 279
Joseph A. Fitzmyer, "The Sense of Scripture Today" ITQ 62 (1996–97): 101–16.
34 Interpretation of the Bible in the Church, II.B.2 (Béchard, Scripture Documents, 281–82).
35 Ibid.
36 Raymond E. Brown, "The History and Development of the Theory of a Sensus Plenior," CBQ 15 (1953): 141–62
idem, The Sensus Plenior of Sacred Scripture (Baltimore: St. Mary’s University, 1955)
idem, "The Sensus Plenior in the Last Ten Years" CBQ 25 (1963): 262–85
idem, IBC 71:56-70
NJBC 71:49–51.
"Sensus Plenior in the Last Ten Years," 262
37 NJBC (71:49)
38 Interpretation of the Bible in the Church, II.B.3 (Béchard, Scripture Documents, 283).
39 Fitzmyer, Biblical Commission’s Document, 130–31.
40 Brown, "Sensus Plenior in the Last Ten Years," 269

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