Chrysostom as exegete : scholarly traditions and rhetorical aims in the Homilies on Genesis /
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Author / Creator: | Pomeroy, Samuel, author. |
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Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] |
Description: | xx, 379 pages ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 0920-623X ; volume 171 Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 171. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12733394 |
Summary: | To what extent and to what purposes did John Chrysostom engage previous models of Biblical exegesis? In this systematic study of his Homilies on Genesis , new light is shed on the precision of his adaption of works by Basil, Origen, Eusebius of Emesa, and Eusebius of Caesarea, findings set against a wider 'web' of parallels with various other exegetes (e.g. Ephrem, Diodore, Didymus). The cumulative picture is a network of shared knowledge across geographical and ecclesial boundaries which served as creative cache for Chrysostom's discourses. With the metaphors of textual obscurity and word-depth, he prioritized name and word interpretations as a means of producing multiple layers of ethical evaluation. |
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Physical Description: | xx, 379 pages ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-352) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9789004469228 9004469222 9789004469235 |
ISSN: | 0920-623X ; |