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Origen and Scripture - The Contours of the Exegetical Life (Hardcover)
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Origen and Scripture - The Contours of the Exegetical Life (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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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, Peter W. 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 they gathered a
spectrum of loyalties, guidelines, dispositions, relationships and
doctrines 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 envisioned by one of its pioneering and most
influential practitioners.
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