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Didymus the Blind and His Circle in Late-Antique Alexandria - Virtue and Narrative in Biblical Scholarship (Hardcover)
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Didymus the Blind and His Circle in Late-Antique Alexandria - Virtue and Narrative in Biblical Scholarship (Hardcover)
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This is the first comprehensive study in the English language of
the commentaries of Didymus the Blind, who was revered as the
foremost Christian scholar of the fourth century and an influential
spiritual director of ascetics. The writings of Didymus were
censored and destroyed due to his posthumous condemnation for
heresy. This study recovers the uncensored voice of Didymus through
the commentaries among the Tura papyri, a massive set of documents
discovered in an Egyptian quarry in 1941. This neglected corpus
offers an unprecedented glimpse into the internal workings of a
Christian philosophical academy in the most vibrant and tumultuous
cultural center of late antiquity. By exploring the social context
of Christian instruction in the competitive environment of
fourth-century Alexandria, Richard A. Layton elucidates the
political implications of biblical interpretation. Through detailed
analysis of the commentaries on Psalms, Job, and Genesis, the
author charts a profound tectonic shift in moral imagination as
classical ethical vocabulary becomes indissolubly bound to biblical
narrative. Attending to the complex interactions of political
competition and intellectual inquiry, this study makes a unique
contribution to the cultural history of late antiquity.
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