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Commentary On Zechariah (Paperback)
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Commentary On Zechariah (Paperback)
Series: Fathers of the Church: A New Translation (Patristic Series)
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The book of Zechariah is ""the longest and most obscure"" of the
Twelve Minor Prophets, Jerome remarked. That may have been the
reason why in 386 he visited the Alexandrian scholar Didymus the
Blind and requested a work on this prophet. Though long thought to
be lost, the work was rediscovered in 1941 at Tura outside Cairo
along with some other biblical commentaries. As a result we have in
our possession a commentary on Zechariah by Didymus that enjoys
particular distinction as his only complete work on a biblical book
extant in Greek whose authenticity is established, which comes to
us by direct manuscript tradition, and has been critically edited.
Thus it deserves this first appearance in English. A disciple of
Origen, whose work on Zechariah reached only to chapter five and is
no longer extant, Didymus's commentary on this apocalyptic book
illustrates the typically allegorical approach to the biblical text
that we associate with Alexandria. Even Cyril of Alexandria in the
next generation will lean rather to the historical style of
commentary found in the Antiochene scholars Theodore and Theodoret,
whose works on the Twelve are also extant and who had Didymus open
before them. Didymus alone offers his readers a wide range of
spiritual meanings on the obscure verses of Zechariah, capitalizing
on his extraordinary familiarity with Holy Writ (despite his
disability), and proceeding on a process of
interpretation-by-association, frequently invoking also etymology
and number symbolism to plumb the meaning of the text. No wonder he
remarks, ""The reader who understands it is a seer""; such is the
richness of the hermeneutical offering.
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