Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity
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Analytica Priora
ancient commentary transmission
Antike Und Mittelalter
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biblical exegesis
Byzantium
CAG
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CCSL 77A
commentaries
Daniel King
De Interpretatione
De Mundo
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interpretatione
late antique philosophy
Late Antiquity
Latin commentary tradition
marius
Marius Victorinus
Matta
Origen's Commentary
Origen’s Commentary
pauline
Pauline Commentaries
Pauline Corpus
Pauline Epistles
philosophical theology
Platonic teaching methods
Porphyry's Eisagoge
Porphyry’s Eisagoge
reshaina
sergius
Sophistical Refutations
syriac
Syriac Readers
Syriac Text
Syriac Tradition
Syriac Translation
Syriac translators
Syriac Version
translation
Translation Technique
version
victorinus
Vigiliae Christianae
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- ISBN 9780367878955
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book brings together sixteen studies by internationally renowned scholars on the origins and early development of the Latin and Syriac biblical and philosophical commentary traditions. It casts light on the work of the founder of philosophical biblical commentary, Origen of Alexandria, and traces the developments of fourth- and fifth-century Latin commentary techniques in writers such as Marius Victorinus, Jerome and Boethius. The focus then moves east, to the beginnings of Syriac philosophical commentary and its relationship to theology in the works of Sergius of Reshaina, Probus and Paul the Persian, and the influence of this continuing tradition in the East up to the Arabic writings of al-Farabi. There are also chapters on the practice of teaching Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy in fifth-century Alexandria, on contemporaneous developments among Byzantine thinkers, and on the connections in Latin and Syriac traditions between translation (from Greek) and commentary. With its enormous breadth and the groundbreaking originality of its contributions, this volume is an indispensable resource not only for specialists, but also for all students and scholars interested in late-antique intellectual history, especially the practice of teaching and studying philosophy, the philosophical exegesis of the Bible, and the role of commentary in the post-Hellenistic world as far as the classical renaissance in Islam.
Josef Lössl is Professor of Historical Theology and Intellectual History, Cardiff University, UK; John W. Watt is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies & Theology, Cardiff University, UK.
