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The Biblical Interpretation of William of Alton (Hardcover)
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The Biblical Interpretation of William of Alton (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Historical Theology
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Studies of medieval Biblical interpretation usually focus on the
printed literature, neglecting the vast majority of relevant works.
Timothy Bellamah offers a groundbreaking examination of the
exegesis of William of Alton, a thirteenth-century Dominican regent
master at Paris whose commentaries have never previously appeared
in print.
As a near contemporary of Hugh of St. Cher, Bonaventure, Albert the
Great, and Thomas Aquinas, William was an important representative
of university exegesis at a time of rapidly changing methods and
remarkable intellectual development. His commentaries are valuable
resources for understanding Biblical study of the thirteenth
century, in the schoolroom and in the pulpit. Yet study of
William's work has been impeded by the dubious authenticity of
numerous commentaries questionably attributed to him over the
centuries.
Bellamah addresses these complex problems by unearthing evidence of
authorship in each commentary's style and methodology. This inquiry
employs the traits of William's commentaries as criteria for
constituting a list of works that can be reliably attributed to
him, which, in turn, provides a crucial basis for studying his
exegesis. William was a man of his time, but even more than his
contemporaries he was deeply interested in history and the literal
sense, which he understood to be the intention of Scripture's
authors, divine and human. He took a keen interest in Biblical
history and put to use a wide array of procedures for textual,
linguistic, and rhetorical analysis. At the same time, he remained
aware of the spiritual senses and the diverse elements of the
exegetical and theological tradition in which he stood.
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