Early Christian Commentators of the New Testament : Essays on Their Aims, Methods and Strategies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicklas, T.

Contributor:

Verheyden, J.

Series:

Biblical Tools and Studies

Biblical Tools and Studies ; v.42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament--Commentaries--History and criticism.

Bible.

Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.

Church history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Early Christian Commentators of the New Testament

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Peeters Publishers & Booksellers, 2021.

Language Note:

7 English, 3 German contributions.

Summary:

The Early Church has produced a diversified and influential tradition of commenting on the Bible. The tradition is rich in content, in methods, and in the goals pursued. The present volume offers a selection of papers read at an international colloquium held in Leuven in December 2018. Basically, three guidelines were followed in selecting the material: language, representative authors, and the wish to cover various parts of the New Testament. Three of the ten essays deal with Greek authors. Origen takes a place of honour, and through him is also heard the voice of one of the oldest Christian commentators, Heracleon. The third one is Theodore of Mopsuestia, the major representative of the non-Alexandrian tradition, averse of an allegorical reading of the Bible. The Latins are represented by their two greatest exegetes (Jerome and Augustine), a recently rediscovered gospel commentator (Fortunatianus), two commentators on Paul (Marius Victorinus and Ambrosiaster), an influential commentator of the Apocalypse (Victorinus of Pettau), and an author who was instrumental in transmitting the legacy of the ancient Church to a new era (Bede).

Contents:

The exegetical method of Heracleon's Hypomnēmata / Carl Johann Berglund

Origenes als Interpret des Neuen Testaments: Auslegungsgeschichtliche Perspektiven und hermeneutische Ansätze anhand der neuen Psalmenhomilien / Lorenzo Perrone

The Old Testament and rhetorical technique in Theodore of Mopsuestia's Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul / Cornelis Hoogerwerf

"ut non ordo lectionis sed rationis intellegatur" (in Apoc. XI,5): Rekapitulation als ein zentrales hermeneutisches Prinzip im Apokalypsekommentar des Viktorin von Pettau / Konrad Huber

Fortunatianus of Aquileia as a biblical commentator / Lukas J. Dorfbauer

Marius Victorinus: Some observations on his use of commentarial techniques in his "Theological Treatises" / Josef Lössl

Abrosiaster as Paul-commentator: exegetical methods and aims in his treatment of Colossians / Stephen Cooper

Wissenschaftliche Exegese in den Prologen der Kommentare des Hieronymus zum Neuen Testament / Alfons Fürst

Grammar at the service of pastoral activity: Augustine's interpretation of John 17,21 / Valentina Marchetto

The bark and the text: Bede's exegetical method in his New Testament commentaries / Sarah Foot.

Notes:

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ISBN:

90-429-4574-5

OCLC:

1276854773