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Chrysostom as exegete : scholarly traditions and rhetorical aims in the Homilies on Genesis / by Samuel Pomeroy.

Van Pelt Library BR65.C46 P66 2022
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pomeroy, Samuel, author.
Series:
Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 171.
Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 0920-623X ; volume 171
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
John Chrysostom, Saint, -407.
John Chrysostom.
Bible--Hermeneutics.
Bible.
Bible. Genesis.
Hermeneutics.
John Chrysostom, Saint, -407. Homilies on Genesis.
Bible. Genesis--Sermons--History and criticism.
Homilies on Genesis (John Chrysostom, Saint).
Sermons.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:
xx, 379 pages ; 25 cm.
Other Title:
Scholarly traditions and rhetorical aims in the Homilies on Genesis
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Summary:
"To what extent and to what purposes did John Chrysostom engage previous models of Biblical exegesis? In this systematic study of his Homilies on Genesis, new light is shed on the precision of his adaption of works by Basil, Origen, Eusebius of Emesa, and Eusebius of Caesarea, findings set against a wider 'web' of parallels with various other exegetes (e.g. Ephrem, Diodore, Didymus). The cumulative picture is a network of shared knowledge across geographical and ecclesial boundaries which served as creative cache for Chrysostom's discourses. With the metaphors of textual obscurity and word-depth, he prioritized name and word interpretations as a means of producing multiple layers of ethical evaluation"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Part 1. Integrating Tradition and Rhetoric. Introduction: integrating tradition and rhetoric
The Homilies on Genesis, Old Testament interpretation, and the rhetoric of obscurity
Questions and answers in tradition and practice
Grammar and linguistic analysis in rhetorical context
Part 2. Engaging Exegetical Sources. John Chrysostom among the Antiochenes
John Chrysostom and Basil of Caesarea
John Chrysostom and Eusebius of Caesarea
John Chrysostom among the Alexandrians.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-352) and indexes.
ISBN:
9789004469228
9004469222
OCLC:
1259586781

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