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Origen and Scripture

The Contours of the Exegetical Life

by Peter W. Martens

  • Hardback
  • 294 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

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Scriptural interpretation was an important form of scholarship for Christians in late antiquity. For no one does this claim ring more true than Origen of Alexandria (185-254), one of the most prolific scholars of Scripture in early Christianity. This book examines his approach to the Bible through a biographical lens: the focus is on his account of the scriptural interpreter, the animating centre of the exegetical enterprise. In pursuing this largely neglected line of inquiry, Peter W. Martens discloses the contours of Origen's sweeping vision of scriptural exegesis as a way of life. For Origen, ideal interpreters were far more than philologists steeped in the skills conveyed by Greco-Roman education. Their profile also included a commitment to Christianity from which they gathered a spectrum of loyalties, guidelines, dispositions, relationships and doctrines that tangibly shaped how they practiced and thought about their biblical scholarship. The study explores the many ways in which Origen thought ideal scriptural interpreters (himself included) embarked upon a way of life, indeed a way of salvation, culminating in the everlasting contemplation of God.This new and integrative thesis takes seriously how the discipline of scriptural interpretation was envisioned by one of its pioneering and most influential practitioners.
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  • Author

    Peter W. Martens

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    January 2012

  • Weight

    591g

  • Page Count

    294

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199639557

  • ISBN-10

    0199639558

  • Eden Code

    4024258

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