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Robert Holcot, exegete - Selections from the commentary on Minor Prophets, with translation and commentary (Hardcover)
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Robert Holcot, exegete - Selections from the commentary on Minor Prophets, with translation and commentary (Hardcover)
Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
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Robert Holcot (d. 1349) was a Dominican friar, most prominently
connected with the convent in Oxford where he became a Doctor of
Theology. Holcot is perhaps most famous today, following an
important discussion by Heiko Obermann in the 1960s, for his
'semi-Pelagian' theological views. In contrast to traditional
Augustinianism, he believed that God granted salvation to
individuals on the basis of 'bonum quod in se est', that is, on the
basis of an individual's intention to do good, rather than any
achievement. While historians of theology know Holcot in these
terms, his wide medieval reputation was rather different. Holcot
was read all over Europe as an exegete, an explicator of biblical
texts, especially the Old Testament sapiential books. This volume
presents a selection, nearly a quarter of the whole, from Holcot's
readings in the minor prophets, originally delivered in the 1330s
as lectures in Oxford's Dominican studium. In a commentary appended
to the text, it uses these selections to offer a view of exegesis,
and of Holcot's strategies, that differs from customary scholarship
on the topic. The commentary attempts to clarify the relation
between Holcot's usually tacit discussion (a feature perhaps driven
by the fact that the received text represents a reportatio or
outline, not a stenographic transcription) and the biblical text at
hand. It further addresses some argumentative features, principally
Holcot's use of narrative and of imagistic distinctiones. The
volume is fully annotated, with a facing-page translation, numerous
references to analogous discussions elsewhere in Holcot (including
his classic Super Sapientiam Salamonis), and full indexes of
Holcot's biblical references, his parallel treatments, and his
sources.
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