Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity : The Alexandrian Commentary Tradition between Rome and Baghdad.
Title:
Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity : The Alexandrian Commentary Tradition between Rome and Baghdad.
Author:
Lössl, Josef.
ISBN:
9781409410089
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (360 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Alexandria to Rome -- 1 Origen: Exegesis and Philosophy in Early Christian Alexandria -- 2 Prologue Topics and Translation Problems in Latin Commentaries on Paul -- 3 Ambrosiaster's Method of Interpretation in the Questions on the Old and New Testament -- 4 Philosophical Exegesis in Marius Victorinus' Commentaries on Paul -- 5 Jerome's Pauline Commentaries between East and West: Tradition and Innovation in the Commentary on Galatians -- 6 The Bible and Aristotle in the Controversy Between Augustine and Julian of Aeclanum -- 7 Boethius as a Translator and Aristotelian Commentator -- Part 2: Alexandria to Baghdad -- 8 Translating the Personal Aspect of Late Platonism in the Commentary Tradition -- 9 Aristotelianism and the Disintegration of the Late Antique Theological Discourse -- 10 Sergius of Reshaina as Translator: The Case of the De Mundo -- 11 Sergius of Reshaina and Pseudo-Dionysius: A Dialectical Fidelity -- 12 The Commentator Probus: Problems of Date and Identity -- 13 Du commentaire à la reconstruction: Paul le Perse interprète d'Aristote (sur une lecture du Peri Hermeneias, à propos des modes et des adverbes selon Paul, Ammonius et Boèce) -- 14 The Genesis and Development of a Logical Lexicon in the Syriac Tradition -- 15 From Sergius to Mattā: Aristotle and Pseudo-Dionysius in the Syriac Tradition -- 16 Al-Fārābī's Arguments for the Eternity of the World and the Contingency of Natural Phenomena -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages -- Index of Names and Subjects.
Abstract:
This book brings together sixteen studies by internationally renowned scholars on the origins and early development of the Latin and Syriac biblical and philosophical commentary traditions. It casts light on the work of the founder of philosophical biblical commentary, Origen of Alexandria, and traces the developments of fourth- and fifth-century Latin commentary techniques in writers such as Marius Victorinus, Jerome and Boethius. The focus then moves east, to the beginnings of Syriac philosophical commentary and its relationship to theology in the works of Sergius of Reshaina, Probus and Paul the Persian, and the influence of this continuing tradition in the East up to the Arabic writings of al-Farabi. There are also chapters on the practice of teaching Aristotelian and Platonic philosophy in fifth-century Alexandria, on contemporaneous developments among Byzantine thinkers, and on the connections in Latin and Syriac traditions between translation (from Greek) and commentary. With its enormous breadth and the groundbreaking originality of its contributions, this volume is an indispensable resource not only for specialists, but also for all students and scholars interested in late-antique intellectual history, especially the practice of teaching and studying philosophy, the philosophical exegesis of the Bible, and the role of commentary in the post-Hellenistic world as far as the classical renaissance in Islam.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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