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Homilies on Jeremiah and I Kings 28 (Paperback)
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Souls existing before their bodies, witches summoning dead prophets
from the underworld, the return of the damned--and the Devil
himself--to God in the end, and many other theological speculations
surprise the reader of Origen's Homilies on Jeremiah and I Kings
28. Some of these very theses of the third-century priest from
Alexandria, Egypt, were condemned in the Second Council of
Constantinople. But plumbing the mystical depths of the Prophecy of
Jeremiah is the central point of the homilies. Presented in this
volume are the remains of twenty-two homilies and a collection of
fragments delivered by Origen around A.D. 240. The original texts
of the homilies on Jeremiah have not come down to us completely;
two of the homilies survive only in a Latin translation of St.
Jerome. The homily on I Kings 28, while not a part of the homilies
on Jeremiah, deals with the Witch of Endor and has been added to
this volume in virtue of its own inherent interest. In this
collection, Origen seeks understanding of the significance of the
hostility of the Chosen People towards the Prophet Jeremiah before
their captivity in Babylon. Origen in many ways identified with the
great prophet and thought of Jeremiah as a type for Christ in the
Hebrew Scriptures. Origen realized that Jeremiah came at a crucial
time in the history of Israel, the time of captivity, and he views
this event and the events around it as pregnant with meaning for
the people of his time. Watching a master grapple with admittedly
difficult, obscure texts and give them compelling, forceful
delivery must have impressed Origen's congregation. Readers will
find it no less engaging to read his homilies now and experience
some of that exhilaration of hearing a true expert highlight every
subtlety of the pericope and make plain what once was obscure. John
Clark Smith studied religion, theology, and philosophy at Syracuse
University, Duke University, and the University of St. Michael's
College at the University of Toronto, where he was also a lecturer
for several years. He is the author of The Ancient Wisdom of Origen
and numerous articles. ""Smith's translation is first rate. It
reads smoothly and clearly. . . . Smith has done a good service to
the field.""--Church History ""The decision to translate and
publish the homilies on 1 Kings and Jeremiah together was a sound
one for two reasons. First, they are the only homilies of Origen
that have been preserved in Greek, rather than Latin. Second,
neither has ever been published in English before. Thus this volume
is to be greeted by anglophones with especially loud huzzahs. . . .
A solid, respectable volume, which clearly sees its role as being
as transparent a medium for Origen's thoughts as possible.""--Laval
theologique et philosophique
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