This book examines Origen of Alexandria's approach to the Bible through a biographical lens, focusing on his account of the scriptural interpreter. Martens explores the many ways in which Origen thought ideal scriptural interpreters(himself included) embarked upon a way of salvation, culminating in the everlasting contemplation of God. Scriptural interpretation was an important form of scholarship for Christians in late antiquity. For no one does this claim ring more true than Origen of Alexandria (185-254), one of the most prolific scholars of Scripture in early Christianity. This book examines his approach to the Bible through a biographical lens: the focus is on his account of the scriptural interpreter, the animating centre of the exegetical enterprise. In pursuing this largely neglected line of inquiry, PeterW. Martens discloses the contours of Origen's sweeping vision of scriptural exegesis as a way of life. For Origen, ideal interpreters were far more than philologists steeped in the skills conveyed by Greco-Roman education. Their profile also included a commitment to Christianity from which theygathered a spectrum of loyalties, guidelines, dispositions, relationships anddoctrines that tangibly shaped how they practiced and thought about their biblical scholarship. The study explores the many ways in which Origen thought ideal scriptural interpreters (himself included) embarked upon a way of life, indeed a way of salvation, culminating in the everlasting contemplation of God. This new and integrative thesis takes seriously how the discipline of scriptural interpretation was envisionedby one of its pioneering and most influential practitioners. INDICE: Preface Introduction I: The Philologist Mandate: The Interpreter'sEducation Specialization: The Elements of Philology II: The Philologist and Christianity Scholarship: Divine Provenance Conversion: Sanctified Study Boundaries (Part I): Interpretation Among the Heterodox Boundaries (Part II): Interpretation in the New Israel Conduct: Moral Inquiry Message: Saving Knowledge Horizons: The Beginning and End of the Drama of Salvation Epilogue Introduction PART 1: THE PHILOLOGIST Mandate: The Interpreter's Education Specialization: The Elements of Philology PART 2: THE PHILOLOGIST AND CHRISTIANITY Scholarship:Divine Provenance Conversion: Sanctified Study Boundaries (Part I): Interpretation Among the Heterodox Boundaries (Part II): Interpretation in the New Israel Conduct: Moral Inquiry Message: Saving Knowledge Horizons: The Beginning and End of the Drama of Salvation Epilogue
- ISBN: 978-0-19-963955-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 05/01/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés