Exploring the literary contexts of patristic biblical exegesis / edited by Miriam De Cock and Elizabeth Klein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeCock, Miriam, editor.

Klein, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Anne), editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

CUA studies in early Christianity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Bible.

Christian literature, Early--History and criticism.

Christian literature, Early.

Fathers of the church.

Bible--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 274 pages.)

Other Title:

Patristic exegesis in context

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2023]

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.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813237428 (electronic bk.)

0813237424 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40032083147

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