Exploring the literary contexts of patristic biblical exegesis / edited by Miriam De Cock and Elizabeth Klein.
| Other author | DeCock, Miriam, editor. |
| Other author | Klein, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Anne) editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2023] |
| Copyright Date | ©2023 |
| Description | xxi, 274 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Patristic exegesis in context |
| Series | CUA studies in early Christianity CUA studies in early Christianity. ^A715464 |
| Contents | Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity as exegesis of the Book of Revelation / Elizabeth Klein -- Congregational exegesis and apocalyptic visions in the Shepherd of Hermas / Bronwen Neil -- Origen makes preachers of us all : a collective analysis of his nine extant Homilies on Judges / Elizabeth Ann Dively Lauro -- Origen's exegetical treatment of Romans 8:15 : spiritual adoption by the Father, in the Son, through the Holy Spirit / Miriam De Cock -- Teaching lions to fast : Jacob of Serugh on Daniel 6 / Robert Kitchen -- Reading Augustine's Psalm Commentaries in the Anthropocene / Sarah Stewart-Kroeker -- Late antique poet as scriptural interpreter : the case of the Metaphrasis Psalmorum / Andrew Faulkner -- Exegetical biography in Gregory of Nazianzus's Oration on hist sister Gorgonia / Robin Darling Young -- "The beginning of his ways:" Christ as God's personified Wisdom in the early Greek Fathers / Brian Daley -- The differences the son makes : the vocation of the theologian-exegete in Augustine's Confessions book 12 / Ron Haflidson -- Augustine, the fishermen's dragnet, the Donatists, and excommunication / Geoffrey D. Dunn -- Apocalyptic imagery and the transformation of the self : Matthew 24 and the Book of Revelation in John Cassian / Daniel G. Opperwall -- Origen on John 20:25 and on the name of the Apostle Thomas (In Iohannem, Fragment 106) / Paul-Huber Poirier -- Visionary exegesis : interpreting Scripture in Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias / Karl Shuve -- General index. |
| Abstract | "The essays of Patristic Exegesis in Context examine the biblical exegesis of early Christians beyond the formal genre of biblical commentary. The past couple of decades have seen a broadening of perspective on the study of patristic exegesis; the phenomenon is increasingly situated within its various literary contexts and genres, and the definition of what counts as patristic exegesis is therefore widened. This volume thus situates itself within this emerging scholarly tradition, which aims not to give an account of exegetical strategies and methodologies as found primarily in exegetical commentaries and homilies, but to demonstrate the highly sophisticated nature of biblical exegesis in other genres, and the manifold uses to which this exegesis was put. Ancient Christian authors lived and breathed scripture; it served as their primary source of theological and liturgical vocabulary, their way of processing the world, their social ethic, and their mode of constructing self and communal identity. Scripture therefore permeates all ancient Christian literature, regardless of genre, and the various contexts in which interpretation of scripture took place resulted in a wide variety of uses of the church's authoritative texts. The essays in this volume demonstrate the interpretive skill, creativity, and sophistication of early Christian authors in a myriad of other early Christian genres, such as poetry, paraphrase, hymns, martyr accounts, homilies, prophetic vision accounts, monastic writings, argumentative treatises, encomia, apocalypses, and catenae. Accordingly, the volume aims to help the modern person, who is used to hearing the Bible explained in explicitly expository situations (for example, in academic commentaries or religious sermons) to become more habituated to ancient ways of interacting with and expounding the biblical text. These essays attempt to contextualize various types of patristic exegesis, in order for us to glimpse the complex and diverse uses of the Bible in this period."-- From the dust jacket. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2023293187 |
| ISBN | 9780813237411 |
| ISBN | 0813237416 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |