Thomas O'Loughlin

Early Medieval Exegesis in the Latin West

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• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of fifteen articles, concentrating on the early Latin Middle Ages, explores the variety of medieval exegesis and highlights just how patchy has been our understanding of it. One of the significant developments in recent scholarship was the awareness among historians of ideas, historians of theology, and medievalists of the importanc

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Produktdetails

• Variorum Collected Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 150mm x 224mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9780367601386
• ISBN-10: 0367601389
• Artikelnr.: 67520476

Autorenporträt

Thomas O'Loughlin is Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Part 1 Processing the Patristic
Inheritance: 'Aquae super caelos (Gen 1:6-7): the first faith-science
debate?; The controversy over Methuselah's death: proto-chronology and the
origins of the western concept of inerrancy; Adam's burial at Hebron: some
aspects of its significance in the Latin tradition; A woman's plight and
the western fathers. Part 2 Developing New Exegetical Strategies: Julian of
Toledo's Antikeimenon and the development of Latin Exegesis; The exegetical
purpose of Adomnán's De Locis Sanctis; The symbol gives life: Eucherius of
Lyons' formula for exegesis; Biblical contradictions in the Periphyseon and
the development of Eriugena's method; The plan of the New Jerusalem in the
Book of Armagh. Part 3 Exegesis as a Practice: Adam's Rib and the equality
of the sexes: some medieval exegesis of Gen 2:21-22; The waters above the
heavens, Isidore, and the Latin tradition; Seeking the early medieval view
on the Song of Songs; The gates of Hell: from metaphor to fact; The
mysticism of number in the medieval period before Eriugena; Individual
anonymity and collective identity: the enigma of early medieval Latin
theologians; Indexes.