1886. Eight lectures preached before the University of Oxford in the year 1885 on the foundation of the Late Rev. John Bampton. With these sketches Frederic W. Farrar, the renowned bible scholar, defends the cause of Christianity by furthering the interests of truth. Contents: Success and Failure of Exegesis; Rabbinic Exegesis; Alexandrian Exegesis; Patristic Exegesis; Scholastic Exegesis; The Reformers; Post-Reformation Epoch; and Modern Exegesis. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.