The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation

NOTE EDITORE

The Bible was the essence of virtually every aspect of the life of the early churches. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation explores a wide array of themes related to the reception, canonization, interpretation, uses, and legacies of the Bible in early Christianity. Each section contains overviews and cutting-edge scholarship that expands understanding of the field. Part One examines the material text transmitted, translated, and invested with authority, and the very conceptualization of sacred Scripture as God's word for the church. Part Two looks at the culture and disciplines or science of interpretation in representative exegetical traditions. Part Three addresses the diverse literary and non-literary modes of interpretation, while Part Four canvasses the communal background and foreground of early Christian interpretation, where the Bible was paramount in shaping normative Christian identity. Part Five assesses the determinative role of the Bible in major developments and theological controversies in the life of the churches. Part Six returns to interpretation proper and samples how certain abiding motifs from within scriptural revelation were treated by major Christian expositors. The overall history of biblical interpretation has itself now become the subject of a growing scholarship and the final part skilfully examines how early Christian exegesis was retrieved and critically evaluated in later periods of church history. Taken together, the chapters provide nuanced paths of introduction for students and scholars from a wide spectrum of academic fields, including classics, biblical studies, the general history of interpretation, the social and cultural history of late ancient and early medieval Christianity, historical theology, and systematic and contextual theology. Readers will be oriented to the major resources for, and issues in, the critical study of early Christian biblical interpretation.

SOMMARIO

1 - Scripture as Artefact2 - The Septuagint and Other Translations3 - Canons and Rules of Faith4 - Divine Discourse: Scripture in the Economy of Revelation5 - Greco-Roman Literary Criticism6 - Early Christian Handbooks on Interpretation7 - From Letter to Spirit: The Multiple Senses of Scripture8 - The Ideal Interpreter9 - Commentaries10 - Scholia11 - Questions and Responses12 - Paraphrase and Metaphrase13 - Catanae14 - Sentences15 - Catecheses and Homilies16 - Poetry and Hymnody17 - Liturgy as Performative Interpretation18 - Christian Apocrypha19 - Novels20 - Hagiography21 - Visual Art22 - Christianity and Judaism23 - Christians and Pagans24 - Marcion and His Critics25 - Gnostics and Their Critics26 - Manichaean Biblical Interpretation27 - Scripture and Martyrdom28 - Scripture in the Trinitarian Controversy29 - Scripture in the Christological Controversies30 - Scripture and a Christian Empire31 - Scripture and Asceticism32 - Creation33 - Adam and Eve34 - Covenants35 - Exodus36 - Law37 - Psalms38 - Semon on the Mount39 - The Gospel of John40 - Paul the Apostle41 - Cross42 - Heaven and Hell43 - Medieval Latin Reception44 - Byzantine Reception45 - Reception in the Renaissance and Reformation46 - Modern Biblical Criticism and the Legacy of Pre-Modern Interpretation47 - Retrievals in Contemporary Christian Theology

AUTORE

Paul M. Blowers is Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History at Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan College. He was formerly President of the North American Patristics Society from 2008-09. His publications include Maximus the Confessor: Jesus Christ and the Transfiguration of the World (2016) and Drama of the Divine Economy: Creator and Creation in Early Christian Theology and Piety (2012). Peter W. Martens is Associate Professor of Early Christianity and Chair of the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. He is the author of Origen and Scripture: The Contours of the Exegetical Life (2012) and the critical edition Adrian's Introduction to the Divine Scriptures (2017).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198718390
• Collana: Oxford Handbooks
• Dimensioni: 246 x 171 mm Ø 1552 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 786