UID:
almahu_9948664193502882
Format:
1 online resource (418 p.)
Edition:
1st, New ed.
ISBN:
9783653001877
Series Statement:
Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity 6
Content:
Scholarship on early Christian exegesis is full of puzzlement at the commentator’s apparent lack of concern for the literal or historical meaning of the text, usually explained as the result of an illegitimate allegorical method. This study comes to grips with the particularities of this type of interpretation by using tools from ethnography and literary criticism. By analysing the commentator’s interpretive assumptions and the framework of significances within which the commentaries were produced and read, the author is able to solve a chronic problem in the study of early Christian exegesis. Further, she articulates the social context of the performance of noetic exegesis and its significance for monastic teachers, philosophers, and their audiences.
Note:
Doctoral Thesis
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Contents: Early Christian exegesis – Late antique religion – Neoplatonism and Christianity – Philosophical education – Monasticism and philosophy – Commentary as the basis for curricula – Origen of Alexandria, Didymus the Blind, and Evagrius Ponticus – Noetic exegesis.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783631602676
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3726/978-3-653-00187-7
URL:
https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/12972?format=EPDF
