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Arator on the Acts of the Apostles - A Baptismal Commentary (Hardcover, New)
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Arator on the Acts of the Apostles - A Baptismal Commentary (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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Baptism for the early Christians was a subject of crucial
importance, and its symbolism fired the imagination of writers
throughout the Christian world. Arator, the Roman sub-deacon who
wrote a verse-commentary on the Acts of the Apostles in A.D. 544,
was no exception. The Historia Apostolica is a work of historical
importance. Written at a time of crisis, politically and
theologically, it is of interest as propaganda for a papacy under
threat from Constantinople. But Arator's concentration on baptismal
themes offers vital evidence of the transmission of exegetical
ideas in late antiquity. This book is the first major work on
Arator in English and the first ever to study the Historia
Apostolica as biblical commentary. Passages of particular baptismal
importance are presented both in the original Latin and in a new
translation, and are considered in the context of the writings of
earlier Christian commentators. Hillier's study is a wide-ranging
study of the popularity and potency of baptismal symbolism in the
first six centuries A.D.
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